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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

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  • 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.
    • February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
    • February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
    • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
    • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
    • October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
    • October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
  • 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.
    • May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
    • July 7 » The ocean liner SSUnited States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
    • July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
    • September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
    • November 25 » Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
    • December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
  • 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 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
    • March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
    • May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
    • May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
    • June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
    • December 8 » A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1920 » Neville Brand, American actor († 1992)
  • 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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