The temperature on October 8, 1940 was between 4.9 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
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.
February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
May 5 » World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London.
May 20 » The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
November 5 » World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMSJervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
November 16 » The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
Day of death August 10, 1991
The temperature on August 10, 1991 was between 18.1 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 5 » Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
May 15 » Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister.
August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
October 1 » Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
October 20 » A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
December 5 » Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Frank Coster, "Family tree Coster", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom_coster/I1564.php : accessed February 24, 2026), "Bernardus "Ben" Schenk (1940-1991)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.