Family tree Chodzynski » Jan van Katwijk (1894-1987)

Day of marriage April 8, 1942

• The temperature on April 8, 1942 was between 5.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
  • February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
  • July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
  • September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

Day of death July 25, 1987

• The temperature on July 25, 1987 was between 9.0 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
  • May 3 » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
  • May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
  • May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
  • July 29 » Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
  • December 20 » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
• 1989 » Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
• 1991 » Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)