Family tree Martens IJsselstreek » Johanna de Wolff (1881-1944)

Day of marriage June 24, 1926

• The temperature on June 24, 1926 was between 3.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
  • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
  • August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

Day of death September 6, 1944

• The temperature on September 6, 1944 was between 11.0 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 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 4 » World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
  • August 5 » World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
  • August 9 » The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
  • September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
  • October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1907)
• 1939 » Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1944 » James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• 1945 » John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
• 1949 » Walter Widdop, English tenor and actor (b. 1892)
• 1950 » Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)