Dreyer Tree » Jan Lodewyk van Niekerk (1922-2009)

Personal data Jan Lodewyk van Niekerk 


Household of Jan Lodewyk van Niekerk

He is married to Elizabeth Jacomina Cronje Dreyer.

They got married

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Historical events

Birthday December 11, 1922

  • The temperature on December 11, 1922 was between 3.9 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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 1922: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
    • February 28 » The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
    • March 18 » In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
    • April 20 » The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
    • May 10 » The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
    • September 18 » The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
    • November 26 » Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

Day of death August 13, 2009

  • The temperature on August 13, 2009 was between 11.0 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • January 15 » US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off.
    • January 20 » A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
    • January 24 » Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
    • January 29 » The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
    • April 10 » President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
    • September 30 » The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1921 » Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist († 2000)
  • 1921 » Liz Smith, English actress († 2016)
  • 1922 » Dilip Kumar, Pakistani-Indian actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1922 » Grace Paley, American short story writer and poet († 2007)
  • 1922 » Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter († 2005)
  • 1922 » Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)

Source: Wikipedia


About the surname Van Niekerk


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