Family tree van Schaik, Oskam, Verbeek, Werkhoven » Jan Gregorius de Jong (1921-2015)

Day of marriage September 9, 1942

• The temperature on September 9, 1942 was between 11.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
  • April 18 » Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
  • May 8 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USSLexington.
  • August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
  • November 21 » The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
  • December 24 » World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.

Day of death July 13, 2015

• The temperature on July 13, 2015 was between 16.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 9.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • April 2 » Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
  • May 9 » An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
  • May 9 » Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
  • May 23 » At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
  • June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
  • December 2 » San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Jeff Leiding, American football player (b. 1961)
• 2014 » Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927)
• 2015 » Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)