Family tree familie Looijkens » Karel Joseph Johannes Somers (1915-1947)

Personal data Karel Joseph Johannes Somers 

  • He was born on April 30, 1915 in Veldhoven.
  • He died on December 19, 1947 in Veldhoven, he was 32 years old.
  • This information was last updated on September 11, 2011.

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He is married to Catharina Heijmans.

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Birthday April 30, 1915

  • The temperature on April 30, 1915 was between 4.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
    • 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.
    • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
    • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
    • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Day of death December 19, 1947

  • The temperature on December 19, 1947 was between -5.3 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
    • May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
    • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
    • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
    • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
    • October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1916 » Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer († 2001)
  • 1916 » Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and author († 2003)
  • 1916 » Robert Shaw, American conductor († 1999)
  • 1917 » Bea Wain, American singer († 2017)

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