Barber Family Tree » Frances Lee Cash (1916-1945)

Day of marriage September 2, 1941

• The temperature on September 2, 1941 was between 10.9 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (68%). 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
  • May 1 » World War II: German forces launch a major attack during the siege of Tobruk.
  • September 5 » Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
  • October 22 » World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
  • November 14 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarineU-81 sustained on November 13.
  • November 19 » World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

Day of death September 26, 1945

• The temperature on September 26, 1945 was between 5.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (37%). 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
  • April 6 » World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
  • April 22 » World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
  • May 2 » World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.
  • August 9 » World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
  • December 12 » The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926)
• 1945 » Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1946 » William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (b. 1886)
• 1951 » Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1952 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1863)