Family tree Peter Lips » Ludovicus Jacobus Anthonius Sofie Marie "Lou" van der Post (1903-1995)

Day of marriage August 9, 1942

• The temperature on August 9, 1942 was between 11.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). 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 year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • April 5 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMSCornwall and HMSDorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
  • May 6 » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
  • June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
  • June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
  • June 28 » World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
  • September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

Day of death June 1, 1995

• The temperature on June 1, 1995 was between 7.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The World Trade Organization comes into being.
  • February 21 » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
  • May 17 » Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
  • October 6 » The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
  • November 6 » Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
  • December 21 » The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer, designed the Ferrari Lampredi engine (b. 1917)
• 1991 » David Ruffin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1996 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)