Stamreeks van Lucas Hendricks naar Jan Bomhof » Jan Josephus van der Post (1881-1941)

Day of marriage September 21, 1912

• The temperature on September 21, 1912 was between 2.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (77%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

Day of death May 6, 1941

• The temperature on May 6, 1941 was between 1.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
  • April 10 » World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.
  • April 27 » World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
  • September 17 » World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.
  • November 12 » World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12°C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
  • December 11 » World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)