Family tree Van Dooijeweert » Hendrikus (Drikus) de Zwart (1912-1985)

Day of marriage August 2, 1944

• The temperature on August 2, 1944 was between 15.9 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
  • March 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
  • September 14 » World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
  • October 29 » The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.

Day of death November 11, 1985

• The temperature on November 11, 1985 was between 0.7 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 12.9 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
  • January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
  • September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
  • October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
  • November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
  • December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (b. 1901)
• 1984 » Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
• 1988 » Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (b. 1897)
• 1988 » William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)