Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Harmen van Meerveld (1895-1979)

Day of marriage January 10, 1945

• The temperature on January 10, 1945 was between -7.5 °C and -1 °C and averaged -4 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • April 4 » World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
  • April 9 » Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, anti-Nazi dissident and spy, by the Nazi regime.
  • April 12 » World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reached Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
  • May 1 » World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
  • August 9 » The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
  • August 30 » The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

Day of death January 8, 1979

• The average temperature on January 8, 1979 was 0.5 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 10.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 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 year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
  • May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
  • October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
  • October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
  • November 12 » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (b. 1898)
• 1980 » John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)