Family tree Kesting (div) » Johannes Kesting (± 1934-1944)

Day of death April 4, 1944

• The temperature on April 4, 1944 was between 8.8 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • March 3 » The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
  • June 20 » The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
  • June 25 » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
  • August 7 » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
  • August 16 » First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
  • August 23 » Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (b. 1878)
• 1951 » George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
• 1953 » Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)