Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Henderika Rossing (1874-1944)

Day of marriage October 24, 1931

• The temperature on October 24, 1931 was between 4.2 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
  • July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.

Day of death June 30, 1944

• The temperature on June 30, 1944 was between 11.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). 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 29 » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
  • July 17 » World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • August 5 » World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
  • August 24 » World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
  • September 17 » World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1875)
• 1941 » Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (b. 1909)
• 1948 » Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1874)