Family tree Menting » Wilhelmus Hendrikus "Willem" van Aaken (1909-1987)

Day of marriage May 16, 1945

• The temperature on May 16, 1945 was between 9.1 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 25 » World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
  • February 4 » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
  • February 5 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
  • February 8 » World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
  • April 28 » Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
  • July 17 » World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

Day of death June 15, 1987

• The temperature on June 15, 1987 was between 7.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 4 » The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
  • March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
  • 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.
  • June 8 » New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
  • June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
  • June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Meredith Willson, American playwright, composer, and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
• 1989 » Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
• 1991 » Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1991 » Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1898)