stamboom Mondria » Johannes van der Meulen (1890-1942)

Day of marriage July 15, 1927

• The temperature on July 15, 1927 was between 13.1 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

Day of death January 16, 1942

• The temperature on January 16, 1942 was between -10.2 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -7.7 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • January 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
  • March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • April 26 » Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
  • June 23 » World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
  • October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
  • December 7 » World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1942 » Ernst Scheller, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
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