Genealogy Pot en Smit » JOHAN MANUEL (1922-1981)

Day of marriage July 8, 1942

• The temperature on July 8, 1942 was between 12.9 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °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.
  • 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 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
  • July 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
  • August 27 » First day of the Sarny Massacre.
  • October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.

Day of death March 30, 1981

• The temperature on March 30, 1981 was between 7.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • April 25 » More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
  • June 5 » The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
  • June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
  • June 27 » The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
  • October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
  • October 9 » President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » George Paine, English cricketer and coach (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Memduh Tağmaç, Turkish general (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Ray Ventura, French pianist and bandleader (b. 1908)
• 1981 » DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Karl Rahner, German-Austrian priest and theologian (b. 1904)