Family tree Baert » Martinus Joseph Baert (1887-1944)

Day of marriage April 29, 1914

• The temperature on April 29, 1914 was between 5.0 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  • November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
  • December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Day of death March 19, 1944

• The temperature on March 19, 1944 was between 4.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 5 » World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
  • April 25 » The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
  • June 7 » World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
  • November 12 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
  • November 24 » World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
  • December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"

Day of burial March 21, 1944

• The temperature on March 21, 1944 was between -1.0 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • February 14 » World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
  • April 14 » Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20million pounds.
  • May 1 » World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
  • June 20 » The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
  • August 12 » Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
  • October 21 » World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against the German civilians takes place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)