Family tree Langedijk » Pieter Nannesz Jongejeugd (1870-1944)

Day of marriage March 9, 1899

• The temperature on March 9, 1899 was about 7.5 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
  • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

Day of death May 25, 1944

• The temperature on May 25, 1944 was between 10.1 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 4 » World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
  • July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
  • August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
  • August 28 » World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
  • October 20 » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands.
  • October 25 » Second World War: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859)
• 1939 » Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1942 » Emanuel Feuermann, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (b. 1888)
• 1948 » Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (b. 1901)
• 1951 » Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet and author (b. 1887)