Genealogy Van Eck op Goeree Overflakkee » Leendert STAM (1889-1952)

Day of marriage March 13, 1940

• The temperature on March 13, 1940 was between 6.4 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 10 » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
  • March 5 » Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
  • March 23 » The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
  • June 5 » World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
  • September 14 » Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
  • September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.

Day of death November 27, 1952

• The temperature on November 27, 1952 was between -1.3 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
  • February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
  • April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
  • June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
  • August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
  • November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1955 » Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer (b. 1875)