Dreyer Tree » Johannes Nicolas (Joey) Raaths (1925-1995)

Day of marriage June 6, 1942

• The temperature on June 6, 1942 was between 11.8 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 26 » World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
  • February 23 » World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • May 15 » World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
  • August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
  • August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.

Day of death March 18, 1995

• The temperature on March 18, 1995 was between 4.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 19 » After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
  • May 23 » The first version of the Java programming language is released.
  • October 16 » The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
  • November 13 » A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
  • November 21 » The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • December 6 » Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
• 1993 » Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909)
• 2001 » John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)