Family tree Simmeren » Alexander Simmeren (1903-1943)

Day of marriage January 23, 1930

• The temperature on January 23, 1930 was between 0.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (34%). 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
  • March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
  • August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
  • October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
  • December 2 » Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,296,000,000 in 2019) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
  • December 16 » Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana.

Day of death March 20, 1943

• The temperature on March 20, 1943 was between -1.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 18 » Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
  • February 14 » World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
  • April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
  • August 27 » World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
  • November 18 » World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
  • November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900; executed)
• 1940 » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Amadeus William Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (b. 1892)