Family tree Jan Werkman » Johanna Wiersma (1911-1944)

Day of marriage June 21, 1930

• The temperature on June 21, 1930 was between 13.5 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
  • April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
  • May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
  • November 11 » Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
  • December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
  • December 29 » Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

Day of death February 26, 1944

• The temperature on February 26, 1944 was between -0.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
  • March 30 » Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
  • March 30 » World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • June 15 » In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
  • August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
  • September 6 » World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.

Day of burial March 2, 1944

• The temperature on March 2, 1944 was between -1.8 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
  • July 25 » World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
  • August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
  • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
  • October 30 » Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » February 26 Incident:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others