The temperature on May 7, 1912 was between 8.7 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death May 24, 1942
The temperature on May 24, 1942 was between 10.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
January 31 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
February 24 » The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.
May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
May 19 » World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
December 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Luc Jan Anna Van Camp (Boom-B), "Genealogieën vanuit de Antwerpse Rupelstreek", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogieen-vanuit-de-antwerpse-rupelstreek/I168184.php : accessed June 18, 2024), "Agnes Lucienne Amelina Lhirondelle (1912-1942)".
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