Genealogy Kramer » Arend Jan Rus (1916-1988)

Day of marriage March 19, 1942

• The temperature on March 19, 1942 was between 1.3 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • July 18 » World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
  • July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
  • August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
  • August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
  • August 30 » World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
  • December 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.

Day of death April 8, 1988

• The temperature on April 8, 1988 was between 4.6 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
  • July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
  • September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
  • September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
  • October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
  • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)