Family tree Van den Berg/van der Werf » Antonius Jacobus Combrink (1886-1940)

Day of marriage January 23, 1929

• The temperature on January 23, 1929 was between 0.7 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
  • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
  • December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

Day of death February 23, 1940

• The temperature on February 23, 1940 was between 2.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
  • June 14 » Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • July 2 » The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
  • July 25 » General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
  • November 7 » In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
  • November 11 » World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)