Family tree Klavers » Femmigje Pol (1919-1997)

Day of marriage August 10, 1940

• The temperature on August 10, 1940 was between 13.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
  • May 24 » Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
  • May 26 » World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
  • July 3 » World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
  • August 25 » World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
  • October 25 » Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

Day of death October 7, 1997

• The temperature on October 7, 1997 was between 12.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 19.3 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • February 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
  • April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
  • August 7 » Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
  • September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
  • December 15 » Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Ivan Hutchinson, Australian film critic and author (b. 1928)
• 1995 » Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1998 » Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)