Bißmeyer-Bissmeyer-Bismeyer-Bismeijer Family » Jan Hendrik Ossenkoppele (1892-????)

Day of marriage February 8, 1917

• The temperature on February 8, 1917 was between -11.5 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
  • June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
  • October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
  • November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.