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Personal data Cornelius Janse de Villiers Potgieter 


Household of Cornelius Janse de Villiers Potgieter

He is married to Judith Maria Dreyer.

They got married on December 6, 1952 at Volksrust, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 31 years old.


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Cornelius Janse de Villiers Potgieter
1921-1974

1952

Judith Maria Dreyer
1922-1979

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Historical events

Birthday August 13, 1921

  • The temperature on August 13, 1921 was between 7.7 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
    • March 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
    • March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
    • May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
    • June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
    • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
    • November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

Day of marriage December 6, 1952

  • The temperature on December 6, 1952 was between -1.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
    • April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
    • April 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
    • April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
    • May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
    • July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
    • September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

Day of death October 1, 1974

  • The temperature on October 1, 1974 was between 1.6 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
    • February 22 » Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.
    • May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
    • June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
    • July 28 » Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
    • September 12 » Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
    • September 17 » Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1921 » Jimmy McCracklin, American blues/R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d 2012)
  • 1921 » Louis Frémaux, French conductor († 2017)
  • 1922 » Chuck Gilmur, American basketball player, coach, and educator († 2011)

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About the surname Potgieter


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Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I18284.php : accessed February 7, 2026), "Cornelius Janse de Villiers Potgieter (1921-1974)".