Family tree familie Eilders » Bernard H Blau (1923-1998)

Day of marriage August 23, 1944

• The temperature on August 23, 1944 was between 18.6 °C and 34.7 °C and averaged 24.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
  • March 5 » World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
  • June 22 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
  • August 26 » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
  • October 13 » World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
  • November 26 » World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.

Day of death March 1, 1998

• The temperature on March 1, 1998 was between 0.5 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The 5.9 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
  • July 17 » A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
  • August 15 » Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
  • October 29 » ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
  • November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
  • December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (b. 1909)
• 1995 » César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1995 » Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
• 1998 » Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2004 » Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)