Eijsermans family tree » Cornelis Henricus Gregorius Maria Maas (± 1942-1942)

Day of death November 2, 1942

• The temperature on November 2, 1942 was between 5.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
  • March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
  • July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
  • July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

Source: Wikipedia

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