Family tree Verloop » Johanna VOORHORST (1860-1942)

Day of marriage March 20, 1883

• The temperature on March 20, 1883 was about 3.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
  • August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
  • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
  • October 4 » First run of the Orient Express.
  • October 20 » Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
  • December 21 » The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.

Day of death June 26, 1942

• The temperature on June 26, 1942 was between 7.7 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 18 » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
  • May 15 » World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
  • May 27 » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
  • June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
  • July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
  • December 24 » World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
• 1938 » James Weldon Johnson, American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 » Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)