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Personal data Barend Jakobus Gert Wessel "Bennie" (Barend Jakobus Gert Wessel "Bennie") Buys 

  • First name Barend Jakobus Gert Wessel "Bennie".
  • He was born on January 15, 1911.
  • He died June 1973 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 62 years old.

Household of Barend Jakobus Gert Wessel "Bennie" (Barend Jakobus Gert Wessel "Bennie") Buys

He is married to Catharina Cornelia "Kattie" Dreyer.

They got married on March 8, 1947 at Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 36 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday January 15, 1911

  • The temperature on January 15, 1911 was between -8.8 °C and -3.3 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
    • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
    • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
    • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
    • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
    • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.


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