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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerardus Franciscus Josephus Otten

Jan Baptist Otten
1844-1922
Johanna Willibrorda Vingerhoets
1845-1929
Gerardus Maijen
1852-1929
Adriana van Roessel
1856-1911

Gerardus Franciscus Josephus Otten
1914-1915


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Historical events

Birthday August 6, 1914

  • The temperature on August 6, 1914 was between 13.0 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
    • July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
    • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
    • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
    • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
    • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Day of death March 14, 1915

  • The temperature on March 14, 1915 was between 4.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 13 » The 6.7 Mw  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
    • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
    • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
    • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.


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