Family tree familie Eilders » John Henry Gaass (1902-1937)
Personal data John Henry Gaass
- He was born on August 21, 1902 in Pella, Marion County, Iowa.
- He died on July 27, 1937 in Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri, he was 34 years old.
- A child of Isaac Overkamp Gaass and Hendrika Wichhart
Household of John Henry Gaass
He is married to Wilma van Haalen.
They got married in the year 1926, he was 23 years old.
Child(ren):
- Carl Edwin Gaass 1928-1998
- Harriet Lorraine Gaass 1929-1981
- Eleanor Faye Gaass 1937-2020
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Historical events
Birthday August 21, 1902
- The temperature on August 21, 1902 was between 8.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (66%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
- March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
- May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
- June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
- November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
Day of death July 27, 1937
- The temperature on July 27, 1937 was between 13.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
- February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
- March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
- June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
- July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
- December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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- 1903 » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor († 1984)
- 1904 » Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1984)
- 1905 » Bipin Gupta, Indian actor and producer († 1981)
- 1906 » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer († 1995)
- 1931 » Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)
- 1938 » Tom Crean, Irish seaman and explorer (b. 1877)
- 1941 » Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)
- 1942 » Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
- 1946 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
- 1948 » Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1898)
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