Lortz Family Tree » Charles Robert Briggs (1923-1943)

Day of death July 18, 1943

• The temperature on July 18, 1943 was between 13.0 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • July 1 » The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
  • July 4 » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
  • August 2 » World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
  • October 1 » World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
  • October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
  • December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
• 1938 » Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
• 1944 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)