The temperature on February 8, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 13 » The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
Day of marriage July 12, 1940
The temperature on July 12, 1940 was between 11.4 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 5 » World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London.
May 28 » World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
October 31 » World War II: The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.
November 22 » World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
Day of death January 13, 2013
The temperature on January 13, 2013 was between -5.1 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 16 » A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
June 7 » A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
September 6 » It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.
October 22 » The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
November 13 » Hawaii legalizes same sex marriage.
December 19 » Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Michael Jacobs, "Family tree Jacobs", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-michael-jacobs/I45775.php : accessed February 17, 2026), "Jan Prenger (1915-2013)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.