Database Admiraal » Margaretha Verdooner (1912-1942)

Day of marriage August 22, 1934

• The temperature on August 22, 1934 was between 10.4 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
  • March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • May 23 » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
  • July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
  • September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
  • November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

Day of death August 2, 1942

• The temperature on August 2, 1942 was between 13.0 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
  • January 31 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
  • April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
  • May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
  • June 22 » World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1937 » Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and educator (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (b. 1879)