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Personal data Jan Frederik de Villiers 


Household of Jan Frederik de Villiers

He is married to Dirkie Cornelia Grey.

They got married on April 30, 1932 at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 24 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday October 13, 1907

  • The temperature on October 13, 1907 was between 7.4 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
    • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
    • April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
    • August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
    • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
    • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
    • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Day of death August 5, 1983

  • The temperature on August 5, 1983 was between 13.0 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • March 6 » The first United States Football League games are played.
    • July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
    • September 12 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
    • September 25 » Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
    • September 27 » Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
    • December 10 » Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.


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