Family tree Eilander » Antonie Adolf Houtman (1928-1948)

Day of death October 9, 1948

• The temperature on October 9, 1948 was between 2.8 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • April 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
  • May 15 » Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
  • June 16 » Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
  • September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
  • September 18 » Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 » James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)