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Personal data Jan Johannes Cornelis Petrus Antonius "Jan" Roovers 


Household of Jan Johannes Cornelis Petrus Antonius "Jan" Roovers

He is married to Marie-Louise Antoinette Hermans.

They got married on May 17, 1941 at Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland, he was 33 years old.

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Birthday March 29, 1908

  • The temperature on March 29, 1908 was between 2.1 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
    • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
    • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
    • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
    • June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
    • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
    • October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Day of marriage May 17, 1941

  • The temperature on May 17, 1941 was between 2.6 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • March 11 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
    • April 16 » World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
    • May 8 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
    • June 2 » World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.
    • September 17 » World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
    • November 26 » World War II: Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs the Kuril Islands to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Day of death September 5, 1974

  • The temperature on September 5, 1974 was between 12.8 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 29.2 mm of rain during 19.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
    • February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
    • March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
    • May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
    • June 26 » The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
    • July 30 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
    • September 10 » Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.


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  • 1970 » Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
  • 1972 » Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (b. 1897)
  • 1973 » Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
  • 1977 » Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (b. 1897)
  • 1979 » Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
  • 1980 » Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (b. 1923)

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