Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Nicolaas Adrianus Petrus "Nico" van Bohemen (1944-2019)

Birthday October 18, 1944

• The temperature on October 18, 1944 was between 7.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • May 18 » Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
  • July 6 » Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
  • July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
  • August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
  • August 21 » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
  • October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
• 1943 » Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
• 1943 » Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter († 2014)
• 1945 » Chris Shays, American politician
• 1945 » Huell Howser, American television host and actor († 2013)
• 1946 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter († 1997)