Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Johannes Wynand Louw HOFMEYR (1911-1963)

Day of marriage January 16, 1940

• The temperature on January 16, 1940 was between -9.2 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • June 3 » World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
  • July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
  • July 23 » The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • August 6 » Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
  • October 14 » World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
  • November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.

Day of death May 14, 1963

• The temperature on May 14, 1963 was between 7.0 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • April 10 » One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USSThresher sinks at sea.
  • April 16 » Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
  • July 1 » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
  • July 19 » Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
  • September 15 » Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
  • December 25 » Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (b. 1884)
• 1959 » Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
• 1959 » Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano and actress (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)