Kramer Family Tree » Bersvend "Ben" (Bersvend "Ben") Johansen (1860-1942)

Christening day October 1, 1860

• The temperature on October 1, 1860 was about 15.6 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • April 6 » The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
  • April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
  • May 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
  • September 7 » Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
  • September 20 » The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.

Day of death December 16, 1942

• The temperature on December 16, 1942 was between 3.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
  • July 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
  • September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
  • October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
  • November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » George Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892)
• 1944 » Betsie ten Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
• 1945 » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat (b. 1866)