Family tree Jan Werkman » Jantje Poel (1919-2014)

Day of marriage May 12, 1944

• The temperature on May 12, 1944 was between 6.1 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
  • September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
  • September 17 » World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.
  • October 6 » World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
  • October 20 » World War II: The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade.
  • December 16 » World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.

Day of death January 9, 2014

• The temperature on January 9, 2014 was between 6.8 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
  • April 14 » Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
  • April 22 » More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
  • August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
  • September 28 » The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
  • December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

Day of cremation January 15, 2014

• The temperature on January 15, 2014 was between 2.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
  • June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
  • July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
  • October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
  • November 28 » Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
  • December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Brigitte Askonas, Austrian-English immunologist and academic (b. 1923)
• 2013 » James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 » Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
• 2014 » Josep Maria Castellet, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Paul du Toit, South African painter and sculptor (b. 1965)