Dreyer Tree » Petrus Jacobus Minaar (1892-1942)

Personal data Petrus Jacobus Minaar 

  • He was born in the year 1892.
  • He died on February 6, 1942 in Rodepoort, Krugersdorp Transvaal Suid Afrika, he was 50 years old.

Household of Petrus Jacobus Minaar

He is married to Susara Carolina Grobler.

They got married on January 10, 1917 at Rodepoort, Krugersdorp, he was 25 years old.

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Historical events

Day of death February 6, 1942

  • The temperature on February 6, 1942 was between -9.1 °C and -3.6 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). 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 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 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
    • February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
    • May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
    • September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
    • October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
    • 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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