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Personal data Johannes Lodewickus de Wit 


Household of Johannes Lodewickus de Wit

He is married to Delila Debora Janse van Vuuren.

They got married on July 16, 1923 at Tarkastad, Tarka, Cape Province, South Africa, he was 28 years old.


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Johannes Lodewickus de Wit
1894-1950

1923

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Historical events

  • The temperature on October 13, 1894 was about 6.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
    • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
    • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
    • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
    • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
    • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • The temperature on July 16, 1923 was between 14.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
    • April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
    • August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
    • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
    • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
    • October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
  • The temperature on December 28, 1950 was between -8.3 °C and -2.5 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
    • February 9 » Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
    • June 25 » The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
    • June 28 » Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
    • October 9 » The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
    • October 11 » CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
    • November 17 » Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1893 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle († 1971)
  • 1895 » Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager († 1978)
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Source: Wikipedia


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