Genealogy Van Raam » Abigaël Druijf (1885-1942)

Day of marriage June 6, 1906

• The temperature on June 6, 1906 was between 4.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (81%). 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Day of death October 26, 1942

• The temperature on October 26, 1942 was between 5.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 9 » Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
  • March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
  • May 27 » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
  • July 18 » The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
  • October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (b. 1904)
• 1943 » Aurel Stein, Hungarian-English archaeologist and academic (b. 1862)
• 1944 » Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1944 » Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857)
• 1944 » William Temple, English archbishop and theologian (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1863)