Family tree Meijers » Hendrika van Veluw (1902-1942)

Day of marriage April 8, 1920

• The temperature on April 8, 1920 was between 7.6 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
  • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
  • July 29 » Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
  • August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
  • November 2 » In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

Day of death January 14, 1942

• The temperature on January 14, 1942 was between -11.2 °C and -6.3 °C and averaged -8.5 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
  • May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
  • August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
  • October 3 » A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
  • December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, author, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Laura E. Richards, American author and poet (b. 1850)
• 1944 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish author and politician (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1892)