Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Willem Hendrik Zürich (1912-2000)

Day of marriage May 6, 1941

• The temperature on May 6, 1941 was between 1.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 10 » World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
  • January 28 » Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
  • June 26 » World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
  • July 10 » Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
  • November 14 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarineU-81 sustained on November 13.
  • December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.

Day of death February 5, 2000

• The temperature on February 5, 2000 was between 6.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • May 25 » Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
  • June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  • September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
  • November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
• 1997 » René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Tim Kelly, American guitarist (b. 1963)
• 1999 » Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 2004 » John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)