Arbre de Didier Van Lerberghe » Celina Marguerite Marie GOMBERT (1865-1947)

Day of marriage November 3, 1943

• The temperature on November 3, 1943 was between 5.5 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
  • March 14 » The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
  • March 15 » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
  • August 17 » World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
  • October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
  • December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

Day of death February 21, 1947

• The temperature on February 21, 1947 was between -7.2 °C and -3.7 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
  • November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.

Day of burial February 27, 1947

• The temperature on February 27, 1947 was between -6.3 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
  • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
  • December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)