Genealogy Krook » Laurens Jacobus Krook (1920-2014)

Day of marriage December 9, 1942

• The temperature on December 9, 1942 was between 3.0 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
  • June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
  • August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
  • November 21 » The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).

Day of death July 16, 2014

• The temperature on July 16, 2014 was between 13.2 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 14 » Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
  • July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
  • August 10 » Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
  • September 18 » Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
  • September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
  • October 31 » During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (1927)
• 2014 » Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2014 » Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920)
• 2014 » Mary Ellen Otremba, American educator and politician (b. 1950)