Genealogy van de familie Van Houten » Johannes Theodorus van Houten (1917-1997)

Day of marriage May 13, 1942

• The temperature on May 13, 1942 was between 9.9 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1 » The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
  • January 13 » World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
  • February 9 » Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
  • August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
  • October 1 » World War II: USSGrouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.
  • November 22 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.

Day of death January 28, 1997

• The temperature on January 28, 1997 was between -0.2 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
  • June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
  • July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
  • August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
  • December 29 » Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1999 » Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)