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Ancestors (and descendant) of Leonardus Adrianus van Engelen

Hendriekus van Engelen
1833-1903
Anna Maria van Drunen
1847-1907
Johannes van Beurden
1842-1896
Gijsberdina van Opzeeland
1843-1882

Leonardus Adrianus van Engelen
1914-1943


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Historical events

Birthday February 14, 1914

  • The temperature on February 14, 1914 was between 7.1 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
    • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
    • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
    • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
    • October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
    • November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

Day of death March 9, 1943

  • The temperature on March 9, 1943 was between -2.3 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
    • April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
    • May 11 » World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
    • July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
    • August 15 » World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
    • December 4 » World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1912 » Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian lawyer, explorer, and author († 1988)
  • 1913 » James Pike, American bishop († 1969)
  • 1913 » Jimmy Hoffa, American trade union leader († 1975)
  • 1913 » Mel Allen, American sportscaster († 1996)
  • 1913 » Woody Hayes, American football player and coach († 1987)
  • 1916 » Marcel Bigeard, French general († 2010)

Source: Wikipedia


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