Lortz Family Tree » Charles Homer Hunter (1900-1938)

Day of death September 4, 1938

• The temperature on September 4, 1938 was between 6.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Day of burial September 6, 1938

• The temperature on September 6, 1938 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)