Family tree Klavers » Albert Boelen (1920-1960)

Day of marriage August 26, 1944

• The temperature on August 26, 1944 was between 13.9 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 31 » World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
  • February 24 » Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.
  • June 13 » World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • September 12 » World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
  • September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.

Day of death February 17, 1960

• The temperature on February 17, 1960 was between -2.7 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
  • April 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
  • May 24 » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
  • August 11 » Chad declares independence.
  • November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
  • November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)