Familie Neander aus Düsseldorf-Unterrath » Theodorus Hubertus Thomas (1921-1994)

Day of marriage July 8, 1942

• The temperature on July 8, 1942 was between 13.6 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). 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 2 » World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.
  • January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
  • June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
  • July 4 » World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
  • September 26 » Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
  • December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Day of death April 16, 1994

• The temperature on April 16, 1994 was between 3.2 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • April 26 » China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
  • May 7 » Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
  • May 9 » Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
  • September 16 » The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
  • September 30 » Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
  • December 3 » The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian spy and activist (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Andy Russell, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
• 1992 » Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Paul-Émilien Dalpé, Canadian labor unionist (b. 1919)
• 1994 » Ralph Ellison, American novelist and critic (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917)