Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Gerard Henri Jozef Maria "Gerard" De Vet (1917-1944)

Day of marriage March 13, 1943

• The temperature on March 13, 1943 was between -0.6 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
  • February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
  • July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
  • September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
  • October 19 » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
  • November 23 » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Day of death December 11, 1944

• The temperature on December 11, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • June 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
  • August 1 » World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
  • September 15 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
  • October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
  • October 20 » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands.
  • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.

Day of burial December 17, 1944

• The temperature on December 17, 1944 was between 5.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 3 » World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
  • June 9 » World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
  • June 22 » World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
  • August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
  • October 18 » World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm Germany.
  • December 30 » King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1941 » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
• 1945 » Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)