Genealogy Van Raam » Ephraim van der Sluis (1902-1943)

Day of marriage January 22, 1936

• The temperature on January 22, 1936 was between 0.8 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
  • August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
  • August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
  • September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
  • December 21 » First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Day of death June 30, 1943

• The temperature on June 30, 1943 was between 12.2 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
  • September 7 » A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
  • November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
  • December 13 » World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
  • December 28 » World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Karl Ernst, German soldier (b. 1904)
• 1941 » Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1875)
• 1941 » Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (b. 1909)
• 1948 » Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (b. 1884)