Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Geert Schoo (1899-1942)

Day of marriage March 6, 1930

• The temperature on March 6, 1930 was between -0.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
  • April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
  • June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
  • December 16 » Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana.

Day of death January 21, 1942

• The temperature on January 21, 1942 was between -16.5 °C and -10.4 °C and averaged -14.0 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
  • July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
  • September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
  • September 13 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
  • November 11 » World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1938 » Georges Méliès, French actor, director, and producer (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer and educator (b. 1876)
• 1950 » George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (b. 1903)