Descendants Jan Blom (ca.1710) » Albertus Johannes Gerardus Tosseram (1914-1986)

Day of marriage May 8, 1943

• The temperature on May 8, 1943 was between 3.9 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 9 » World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
  • March 22 » World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
  • June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
  • June 20 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
  • July 10 » World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
  • July 23 » World War II: The British destroyers HMSEclipse and HMSLaforey sink the Italian submarineAscianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMSNewfoundland.

Day of death October 1, 1986

• The temperature on October 1, 1986 was between 5.5 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
  • April 27 » The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
  • May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
  • October 5 » Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
  • November 6 » Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2⁄₂ miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
  • November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
• 1985 » E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Ninian Sanderson, Scottish race car driver (b. 1925)
• 1986 » Archie League, American air traffic controller (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Sacheverell Sitwell, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Curtis LeMay, American general (b. 1906)