Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Hendrik Johannes la Verge (1907-1972)

Day of marriage July 10, 1942

• The temperature on July 10, 1942 was between 12.5 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
  • January 13 » World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • June 5 » World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
  • July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
  • August 27 » First day of the Sarny Massacre.

Day of death July 6, 1972

• The temperature on July 6, 1972 was between 12.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 14 » Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
  • January 30 » Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
  • March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
  • April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
  • November 30 » Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
  • December 23 » The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1886)