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Personal data Petrus Johannes Matthys Hoffman 


Household of Petrus Johannes Matthys Hoffman

He is married to Johanna Sophia Elizabeth Dreyer.

They got married on November 7, 1904 at VanRhynsdorp, Cape Colony, South Africa, he was 19 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday March 1, 1885

  • The temperature on March 1, 1885 was about 4.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
    • May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
    • June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
    • August 14 » Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
    • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
    • September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

Day of marriage November 7, 1904

  • The temperature on November 7, 1904 was between 3.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
    • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
    • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
    • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
    • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
    • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1880 » Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic († 1932)
  • 1886 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright († 1980)
  • 1888 » Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player († 1948)
  • 1888 » Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer, outside right († 1949)
  • 1889 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher († 1960)
  • 1890 » Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author († 2002)

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