Family tree Van der Velden, Gesink, Blonk, Seijmonsbergen, vd Geur » Jan Cornelis Meijer (1912-1992)

Day of marriage November 25, 1942

• The temperature on November 25, 1942 was between 1.5 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
  • January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
  • March 14 » Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
  • October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.

Day of death January 8, 1992

• The temperature on January 8, 1992 was between 1.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
  • April 2 » In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
  • April 5 » Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
  • April 9 » A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
  • April 27 » Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
  • November 23 » The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1990 » Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 » Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
• 1994 » Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 » Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1996 » Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)