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Ancestors (and descendant) of Johannes Theodorus Witjes

Johannes Witjes
1774-1860
Christina (Catharina) Derksen
1781-1857
Theodorus Mom
Maria Gertsen
Elisabeth Mom
1825-1885

Johannes Theodorus Witjes
1861-1943


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Day of death January 10, 1943

  • The temperature on January 10, 1943 was between -7.2 °C and -3.8 °C and averaged -5.3 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • February 20 » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
    • April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
    • June 25 » The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
    • September 12 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
    • September 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
    • November 1 » World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.


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  • 1941 » Joe Penner, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1904)
  • 1941 » John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)
  • 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)

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