Klein Eyckenstein » Cecilia Jacoba Maria Meuwese (1908-1997)

Day of marriage July 21, 1942

• The temperature on July 21, 1942 was between 11.5 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
  • July 4 » World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
  • July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
  • July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
  • November 28 » In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.

Day of death August 15, 1997

• The temperature on August 15, 1997 was between 12.3 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • February 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
  • May 10 » The 7.3 M_w Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
  • June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
  • June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
  • June 30 » The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
  • July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (b. 1929)
• 1995 » John Cameron Swayze, American journalist and actor (b. 1906)
• 1997 » Ida Gerhardt, Dutch poet and educator (b. 1905)
• 1999 » Hugh Casson, English architect and interior designer (b. 1910)
• 2001 » Richard Chelimo, Kenyan runner (b. 1972)
• 2001 » Yavuz Çetin, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1970)