Family tree Smith » Johan Willem Bech (1902-1983)

Day of marriage August 28, 1944

• The temperature on August 28, 1944 was between 12.6 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (38%). 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • September 12 » World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
  • October 12 » World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
  • October 20 » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands.
  • November 19 » World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.

Day of death December 11, 1983

• The temperature on December 11, 1983 was between -3.5 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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.
  • January 19 » Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
  • February 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
  • February 24 » A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
  • July 1 » A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
  • September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
  • October 30 » The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 » George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 » G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)