Family tree Elshof - Van Dartel » N.n. Wolfkamp (1944)

Birthday May 6, 1944

• The temperature on May 6, 1944 was between 2.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 13 » Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
  • June 17 » Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
  • June 22 » World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
  • December 3 » Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
  • December 31 » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction († 1977)
• 1943 » James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator
• 1943 » Milton William Cooper, American theorist and author († 2001)
• 1943 » Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter († 2011)
• 1944 » Anton Furst, English-American production designer and art director († 1991)
• 1944 » Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player and coach