Family tree Menting » Hendrik van Asten (1892-1945)

Day of marriage February 20, 1919

• The temperature on February 20, 1919 was between 2.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 31 » The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
  • April 13 » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
  • July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
  • October 7 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

Day of death April 15, 1945

• The temperature on April 15, 1945 was between 9.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 3 » World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
  • March 29 » World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
  • April 20 » Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
  • May 5 » World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath becomes effective, encompassing all German armed forces opposing the 21st Army Group in northwestern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
  • August 9 » World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
  • August 21 » Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 » Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 » Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)