Genealogy Van Raam » Nathaniël van Praag (1870-1943)

Day of marriage July 10, 1913

• The temperature on July 10, 1913 was between 6.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 20 » King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
  • February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
  • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • December 1 » The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.

Day of death April 30, 1943

• The temperature on April 30, 1943 was between 5.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 20 » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
  • July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
  • September 6 » The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
  • September 16 » World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
  • November 22 » World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
  • November 25 » World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (b. 1859)
• 1939 » Frank Haller, American boxer (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1860)
• 1953 » Jacob Linzbach, Estonian linguist and author (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)