Van Hoof Tree » Johanna (Anna) Maria Swinkels (1914-1983)

Day of marriage February 20, 1942

• The temperature on February 20, 1942 was between -5.9 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
  • February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
  • April 18 » Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
  • May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
  • June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
  • November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

Day of death February 26, 1983

• The temperature on February 26, 1983 was between 3.2 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
  • April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
  • May 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
  • October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
  • December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
  • December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

Source: Wikipedia

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