Family tree Cees Eekhout en Cobie Pronk » Elisabeth Johanna van der Spek (1892-1944)

Day of marriage November 10, 1915

• The temperature on November 10, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
  • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

Day of death October 11, 1944

• The temperature on October 11, 1944 was between 6.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • January 27 » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
  • July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
  • August 7 » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
  • August 23 » World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
  • September 13 » World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.

Day of burial October 14, 1944

• The temperature on October 14, 1944 was between 7.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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 7 » World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
  • June 4 » World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
  • June 15 » In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
  • June 20 » World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
  • August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
  • September 28 » World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1932 » William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)