Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Margaretha Cornelia - Grietje Bauerhuit (1920-2009)

Day of marriage April 15, 1944

• The temperature on April 15, 1944 was between 10.1 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • June 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
  • July 25 » World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
  • August 2 » ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
  • September 12 » World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
  • October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

Day of death December 29, 2009

• The temperature on December 29, 2009 was between -1.4 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 31 » In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
  • June 1 » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
  • June 8 » Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
  • June 10 » James Wenneker von Brunn, who was 88-years-old, opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
  • November 10 » Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
  • November 23 » The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines.

Day of burial January 2, 2010

• The temperature on January 2, 2010 was between -6.4 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Unknown criminals pour more than 2​⁄₂ million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
  • April 14 » Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
  • June 24 » Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
  • September 7 » A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
  • November 4 » Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers and crew are killed.
  • December 17 » Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.

Source: Wikipedia

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