Database Van Broekhoven » Kors Johannes Leupen (1860-1941)

Day of marriage September 8, 1915

• The temperature on September 8, 1915 was between 10.9 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
  • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.

Day of death June 26, 1941

• The temperature on June 26, 1941 was between 15.9 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 19 » World War II: HMSGreyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64km) northeast of Falkonera.
  • February 23 » Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
  • March 4 » World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
  • March 28 » World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.
  • June 23 » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
• 1938 » James Weldon Johnson, American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 » Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)