Family tree Weening » Hendrik Veenstra (1919-1997)

Day of marriage July 22, 1943

• The temperature on July 22, 1943 was between 14.1 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 2 » World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
  • April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
  • October 21 » World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
  • November 18 » World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
  • November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
  • December 28 » World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

Day of death November 19, 1997

• The temperature on November 19, 1997 was between 2.3 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • April 3 » The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
  • May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
  • July 2 » The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
  • September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
  • December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.
  • December 29 » Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Bernard Thompson, English director and producer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)