He died on April 14, 1944 in Kampong Sanfarmoen, Vogelkop, Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea, he was 37 years old.Source 2
Gesneuveld bij de verzetacties in de Vogelkop van Nieuw-Guinea. In 1945 posthuum de BRONZEN LEEUW toegekend. Begraven op het Nederlands ereveld Candi te Semarang.
The temperature on February 5, 1907 was between -2.3 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
Day of death April 14, 1944
The temperature on April 14, 1944 was between 8.4 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 3 » World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
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 1 » Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
September 6 » World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
December 18 » World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
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