Eijssens-Vickers Tree » Joannes Jacobus Niekus (1864-1916)

Personal data Joannes Jacobus Niekus 


Household of Joannes Jacobus Niekus

He is married to Himmegina Katrina Klazina Dieters.

They got married on February 16, 1893 at Groningen, Netherlands, he was 28 years old.

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Birthday October 4, 1864

  • The temperature on October 4, 1864 was about 9.9 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
    • May 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
    • June 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
    • June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
    • June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
    • October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.

Day of death September 8, 1916

  • The temperature on September 8, 1916 was between 11.1 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
    • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
    • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
    • August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
    • September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
    • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.


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