Family tree van Walter Planije en Everarda de Winter met (teveel) vertakkingen » Johanna Profittlich (± 1930-1942)

Day of death February 16, 1942

• The temperature on February 16, 1942 was between -5.8 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -3.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • February 1 » World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
  • February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
  • March 14 » Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
  • March 22 » World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

Source: Wikipedia

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