Family tree Steen » Cornelis van der Leek (1903-1943)

Day of marriage July 25, 1929

• The temperature on July 25, 1929 was between 9.4 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (49%). 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 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 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
  • April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
  • June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
  • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
  • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
  • August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

Day of death November 2, 1943

• The temperature on November 2, 1943 was between 6.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
  • January 31 » World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
  • February 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
  • March 22 » World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
  • August 27 » World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
  • October 6 » World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete.

Day of burial November 6, 1943

• The temperature on November 6, 1943 was between -4.7 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 13.7 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 15 » World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
  • 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.
  • April 16 » Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
  • June 19 » The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
  • October 19 » The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
  • November 28 » World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)