Ancestral Trails 2016 » William George GOODSHIP (1886-1949)

Day of death December 13, 1949

• The temperature on December 13, 1949 was between -0.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • August 3 » The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
  • August 10 » An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.
  • November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
  • December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)