Genealogy Harssema » Martha van KLEEF (1892-1943)

Day of marriage September 17, 1941

• The temperature on September 17, 1941 was between 7.2 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
  • April 23 » World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
  • May 10 » World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
  • September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
  • December 12 » World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
  • December 25 » Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.

Day of death September 10, 1943

• The temperature on September 10, 1943 was between 13.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 14 » World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
  • March 14 » The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
  • April 8 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
  • June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
  • July 19 » World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
  • October 14 » World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
• 1937 » Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1938 » Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (b. 1852)
• 1939 » Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (b. 1888)
• 1948 » Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)