Family tree Verloop » Dorothea Jozephina Maria (Dolly) de VILDER (1919-1974)

Day of marriage April 9, 1942

• The temperature on April 9, 1942 was between 3.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
  • 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.
  • February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
  • June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
  • September 7 » World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.
  • September 13 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.

Day of death September 14, 1974

• The temperature on September 14, 1974 was between 10.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • April 27 » Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • May 17 » The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
  • July 15 » In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
  • July 26 » Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
  • September 10 » Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
  • October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1966 » Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
• 1981 » Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
• 1981 » William Loeb III, American publisher (b. 1905)