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Ancestors (and descendant) of Petra Anna van Rooij

Johannes van Rooij
1863-1938
Helena van Houtum
1864-1930
Antonius Verhoeven
1851-1917
Maria Timmermans
1861-1914

Petra Anna van Rooij
1938-1939


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Historical events

Birthday August 18, 1938

  • The temperature on August 18, 1938 was between 11.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
    • June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
    • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
    • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
    • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
    • December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

Day of death October 22, 1939

  • The temperature on October 22, 1939 was between 1.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
    • February 5 » Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
    • March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
    • April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
    • June 12 » The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
    • August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
    • September 22 » World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.


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