Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Maria Henriëtte WILLEMS (1915-2007)

Day of marriage May 9, 1944

• The average temperature on May 9, 1944 was 8.9 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • February 15 » World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
  • April 1 » Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
  • June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
  • June 22 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
  • August 1 » World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

Day of death December 16, 2007

• The temperature on December 16, 2007 was between -3.6 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
  • May 3 » The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
  • June 27 » The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
  • August 8 » An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
  • October 22 » A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
  • November 5 » China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Don Jardine, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1940)
• 2006 » Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist and educator (b. 1922)
• 2006 » Stanford J. Shaw, American historian and academic (b. 1930)
• 2006 » Taliep Petersen, South African singer-songwriter and director (b. 1950)
• 2007 » Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)