Genealogy Haantjes » Gerardus Johannes van de Donk (1916-1944)
Personal data Gerardus Johannes van de Donk
- He was born on June 8, 1916 in Stratum.
- He died on September 21, 1944 in Manilla (baai), he was 28 years old.
The Toyofuku Maru was used for carrying prisoners and troops to Japan.
On 21st of September 1944, she was sunk by aircraft off Luzon.
Carrying British and Dutch POWs, she was hit by US torpedo carrying bombers and called in at Manila to unload the sick and dying. She then resumed her course, she was then hit after three days at sea and sunk within minutes. 1000 prisoners lost their lives, only two hundred survived - A child of Henricus van de Donk and Arnoldina van der Vleut
- This information was last updated on October 30, 2006.
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Birthday June 8, 1916
- The temperature on June 8, 1916 was between 7.6 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
- February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
- February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
- April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
- June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
Day of death September 21, 1944
- The temperature on September 21, 1944 was between 8.8 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- April 5 » World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
- April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
- June 15 » In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- July 17 » Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
- August 5 » World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
- October 13 » World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
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