Lax Family Tree » Margarete Berta Sara Levy (1895-1944)

Day of marriage September 16, 1919

• The temperature on September 16, 1919 was between 11.5 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 31 » The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
  • February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • June 21 » Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
  • September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Day of death August 9, 1944

• The temperature on August 9, 1944 was between 11.9 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 5 » World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
  • April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
  • June 20 » Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
  • August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
  • November 7 » Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
  • December 15 » World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1948 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885)