Familie Doevendans » Jacobus Maria BOND (1939-2019)

Birthday January 23, 1939

• The temperature on January 23, 1939 was between 5.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
  • April 4 » Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
  • May 17 » The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
  • September 4 » World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
  • September 6 » World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.
  • November 30 » Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
• 1938 » Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and promoter, founded All Japan Pro Wrestling († 1999)
• 1939 » Ed Roberts, American disability rights activist († 1995)
• 1940 » Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic († 2015)
• 1940 » Joe Dowell, American pop singer († 2016)
• 1941 » Jock R. Anderson, Australian economist and academic