Genealogy Ribbens » Adrianus Sebastianus RIBBENS (1905-1972)

Day of marriage September 19, 1942

• The temperature on September 19, 1942 was between 9.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). 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.
  • January 26 » World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
  • February 1 » World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
  • February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
  • August 19 » World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
  • October 3 » A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
  • November 8 » World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

Day of death August 1, 1972

• The temperature on August 1, 1972 was between 12.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 30 » Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
  • February 1 » Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
  • March 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
  • April 6 » Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
  • May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
  • June 20 » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)