Dreyer Tree » Petrus Jacobus Nicholaas Fourie (1873-1942)

Personal data Petrus Jacobus Nicholaas Fourie 

  • He was born in the year 1873.
  • He died on April 15, 1942 in Oudshoorn Cape South Africa, he was 69 years old.

Household of Petrus Jacobus Nicholaas Fourie

He is married to Sophia Elizabeth Gerber.

They got married January 1919 at Calitzdorp Cape South Africa, he was 46 years old.

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Historical events

Day of death April 15, 1942

  • The temperature on April 15, 1942 was between 1.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
    • February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
    • May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
    • June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    • August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
    • August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
    • November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.


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