Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Henderika Grietina Broeksema (1923-1990)

Day of marriage April 21, 1945

• The temperature on April 21, 1945 was between 6.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. 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.
  • January 31 » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
  • February 4 » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
  • May 6 » World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
  • July 16 » Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
  • July 23 » The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
  • August 30 » The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

Day of death March 3, 1990

• The temperature on March 3, 1990 was between 1.4 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
  • April 11 » Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
  • April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
  • May 20 » The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
  • June 1 » Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
  • November 14 » After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (b. 1918)
• 1988 » Sewall Wright, American biologist and geneticist (b. 1889)
• 1990 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (b. 1895)
• 1991 » William Penney, Baron Penney, Gibraltar-born English mathematician, physicist, and academic (b. 1909)