Family tree Weening » Walle Jan van Hoving (1917-1997)

Day of marriage August 5, 1941

• The temperature on August 5, 1941 was between 9.5 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 27.8 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
  • March 29 » The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
  • March 29 » World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
  • May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
  • November 25 » HMSBarham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
  • December 10 » World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.

Day of death November 27, 1997

• The temperature on November 27, 1997 was between 4.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 14.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
  • March 9 » Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
  • May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
  • July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
  • August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
  • November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Buck Leonard, American baseball player and educator (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1998 » Gloria Fuertes, Spanish poet and author of children's literature (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice (b. 1925)
• 1999 » Elizabeth Gray Vining, American author and librarian (b. 1902)
• 1999 » Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1937)