Family tree Brons » Jan Sligter (1876-1941)

Day of marriage April 28, 1906

• The temperature on April 28, 1906 was between 0.4 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Day of death November 15, 1941

• The temperature on November 15, 1941 was between -6.9 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 19 » World War II: HMSGreyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64km) northeast of Falkonera.
  • April 1 » A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
  • May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
  • June 26 » World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
  • September 1 » The Nazis execute 2,500 Jews by shooting in Ostroh, Ukraine.
  • December 25 » World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.

Day of burial November 19, 1941

• The temperature on November 19, 1941 was between 3.7 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 11 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
  • August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
  • September 8 » World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
  • September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
  • November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
  • December 8 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)