FutureHistory » Amandus Philibert "Flup" (Amandus Philibert "Flup") Rottiers (1920-1983)

Day of marriage April 28, 1944

• The temperature on April 28, 1944 was between 5.5 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • February 17 » World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
  • March 3 » The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
  • March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
  • July 6 » Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
  • August 23 » World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
  • October 18 » World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.

Day of death October 9, 1983

• The temperature on October 9, 1983 was between 7.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
  • April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
  • May 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
  • June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
  • July 24 » George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
  • September 12 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
• 1982 » Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)
• 1985 » Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
• 1987 » William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)