Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Johann Heinrich Hartmann (1923-1947)

Day of death February 12, 1947

• The temperature on February 12, 1947 was between -8.0 °C and -6.2 °C and averaged -7.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
  • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
  • December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

Day of burial February 15, 1947

• The temperature on February 15, 1947 was between -8.9 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
  • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
  • March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Avraham Stern, Polish-Israeli militant leader (b. 1907)
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• 1942 » Grant Wood, American painter and academic (b. 1891)
• 1947 » Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
• 1954 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1896)