The next day Roosenburg and 15 other Dutch set out for Halle airfield, where they convinced an American soldier to allow them flight on the next plane to Belgium.

* 1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist ( d. 1972 )

* May 26 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist ( d. 1972 )

Henriette Roosenburg ( May 26, 1916-1972 ) was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner, perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of World War II.

On June 6, 1945, Roosenburg and a group of Dutch people was exchanged for a group of Russian POWs ; they made their way to a Red Cross camp where they found that only the French and Belgians would be flying home ; the rest would have to wait several weeks until a truck came.

But Roosenburg happened to meet her cousin, Dirk Roosenburg, who had become a first lieutenant in the Dutch Army ; he arranged for Henriette and her friends to be driven north the next day, where they reunited with their families.

His maternal grandfather, Dirk Roosenburg ( 1887 – 1962 ), was a modernist architect.

Some countries in northwestern Europe had more liberal policies towards contraception than the United States at the time, and when Sanger visited a Dutch birth control clinic in 1915, she learned about diaphragms and became convinced that they were a more effective means of contraception than the suppositories and douches that she had been distributing back in the United States.

Meanwhile other events had convinced the delegation of Dutch animosity.

Rupert now was at a loss how to continue the campaign ; not daring to enter the dangerous Schooneveld again, his only hope was to lure the Dutch out ; but he was so convinced De Ruyter would never leave this ideal blocking position, his fleet was unready when the resupplied Dutch fleet indeed attacked on 14 June, starting the Second Battle of the Schooneveld.

The Dutch retracted their blockade, but were soon convinced by the Danes to support them again.

Torrington sailed from the Nore already convinced the French would be stronger – much of the Royal Navy had been diverted to protect their maritime commerce from privateers, and the Allied fleet now only had 56 English and Dutch ships of the line, totalling 4, 153 guns, to Tourville's fleet of 4, 600 guns.

Winkelman was convinced that the Dutch army was incapable of a modern, ' mobile ' defence.

" The expected attack never came: the Dutch army that was to have joined the fleet was not prepared, and Duncan's misleading signals had successfully convinced De Winter that a large British fleet waited just beyond the horizon.

A popular Dutch story ( never confirmed ) says that in the late 1940s the wife of the then Prime minister, Willem Drees, served coffee and one biscuit to a visiting American diplomat, who then became convinced that the money from the Marshall Plan was being well-spent.

Guy Roux, impressed by Blanc and looking for a replacement for Dutch international Frank Verlaat, convinced him to join Auxerre in 1995.

As part of his study of Drake's circumnavigation, Aker became convinced that Drake was the true discoverer of Cape Horn, rather than Dutch explorer Willem Schouten, who was thought to have discovered it in 1616.

In 1898, the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck independently replicated Ivanovsky's experiments and became convinced that the filtered solution contained a new form of infectious agent, which he named virus.

Rupert, convinced that the smaller Dutch fleet would withdraw to Hellevoetsluis when pressed, detached a special squadron at nine in the morning to cut off the retreating Dutch from the north.

However, he was convinced that the British needed to establish a new base in Southeast Asia in order to compete with the Dutch.

De Witt had just convinced the States to spend four million guilders on a programme of sixty new warships but although these, carrying mostly about 44 cannon, were a lot heavier than the average Dutch ship of the last war, they were still little more than frigates by English standards.

Witnessing the frequent human sacrifices in Ashanti, the Dutch were convinced that the Asantahene and his court controlled vast amounts of manpower, some of which could be made available to the Dutch army.

After a 48-hour extension to the deadline and discussions to clarify the Dutch proposals, Dr Frank Graham, the US member of the CGO convinced the Republicans to accept, saying they could rely on the US using its influence to ensure the Dutch kept to their side of the bargain.

James was already convinced that only Irish troops could be relied on to defend him, but this defeat by an inferior force and the willingness of the people of Reading to support a Dutch invasion further signalled the insecurity of his position.

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

One day later a military unit of 8000 men consisting of Bavarian and French Troops approached Innsbruck from the Brenner Pass, but was convinced to surrender by captain Teimer, who dressed up as a Major of the regular Austrian army and made the Bavarian officers believe that the Austrian army was approaching Innsbruck, when in fact it was still about 40 miles away.

A bigger coup was achieved when Packer convinced the England captain Tony Greig to not only sign on, but to act as an agent in signing many players around the world.

However, the Surrey captain and England selector Leveson-Gower persuaded the committee to include Hobbs in the squad, then convinced a reluctant MacLaren to play him in the team.

Bizarrely, the captain of the 2, 206 ton French ship Dupleix rowed across to Seeadler, convinced another French captain was playing a practical joke on him.

Bridger, though originally reluctant, is convinced to return to the navy and assume command of the seaQuest after its original captain was relieved of duty for disobeying orders.

He also convinced himself that he was to be Christ's captain in a crusade against Muslims in Africa.

Albany captain, Henry Mowat, who was familiar with Massachusetts politics, took the rumors ( which were followed by reports that a fleet had left Boston ) quite seriously, and convinced General McLean to leave additional ships that had been part of the initial convoy as further defense.

He became a Scotland captain, and even led them in the Calcutta Cup match of 1973, despite breaking a bone in his leg two weeks before against, according to Massie " it says much for the persuasive power of his character that he convinced the selectors he was able to play.

Kinkaid convinced the captain to allow homeless families of crew members to stay on the ship, and erected tarpaulins on the quayside to create family areas.

In 1848, he convinced the captain of the Plymouth to set him to sea on a small boat off the coast of Hokkaidō.

Bradman was not convinced of Lindwall's fitness, but the bowler's protestations was sufficient to convince his captain to gamble on his inclusion.

It was not until December 1901 that Darling was convinced to return by the Melbourne Cricket Club to captain the Australians against the touring English for the first three Tests only.

Once the ship was docked, the captain set about stalling the authorities for as long as possible with excuses, which further convinced the authorities that they had intercepted the real cargo.

Toward the end of the film, after John Wayne's character convinced the captain to try to make it to San Francisco rather than ditch, the captain said " Whistle me a tune, Dan.

Hunt signed for Rotherham United on the 22nd May along with former Millers captain Ian Sharps, the lure of the New York Stadium convinced the former Bolton man to sign for the Millers.

The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal ( Bord, 1990 ), but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the caught fish.

It was only after Darren Gough's appointment as Yorkshire captain, and the major signings of Jacques Rudolph and Younis Khan that McGrath became convinced Yorkshire shared his ambitions and he decided to stay.

He decided to give the arm band to John Terry, the Chelsea defender and captain who at the time had 24 England caps, saying " I'm convinced he will prove to be one of the best captains England has ever had.