Database Van Broekhoven » Henricus Leo Maria Bertens (1902-1969)

Day of marriage February 10, 1942

• The temperature on February 10, 1942 was between -5.1 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
  • March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
  • March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.

Day of death November 26, 1969

• The temperature on November 26, 1969 was between -3.2 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
  • April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
  • July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
  • July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
  • August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
  • December 4 » Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Albert Sarraut, French lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1973 » John Rostill, English bass player and songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1974 » Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920)