Eijssens-Vickers Tree » Benjamin Hey (1869-1955)
Personal data Benjamin Hey
- He was born April 1869 in Ripponden, England.
- He died on March 4, 1955 in Wanganui, New Zealand, he was 85 years old.
- A child of Joseph Hey and Sarah Gawthrop
- This information was last updated on June 3, 2021.
Household of Benjamin Hey
He is married to Matilda Fielding.
They got married April 1893 at Halifax, England, he was 24 years old.
Child(ren):
- Thomas Hey 1894-1975
- William Ewart Hey 1898-1980
- Nora Hey 1900-1901
- Elsie Hey 1903-
- Lily Hey 1904-1907
- Edith Hey 1910-
- John Hey 1912-1967
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Day of death March 4, 1955
- The temperature on March 4, 1955 was between -2.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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)
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
- April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
- May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
- June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
- November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
Same birth/death day
- 1948 » Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
- 1949 » Clarence Kingsbury, English cyclist (b. 1882)
- 1952 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
- 1954 » Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (b. 1898)
- 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
- 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
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Keith Vickers, "Eijssens-Vickers Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/eijssens-vickers-tree/I154.php : accessed February 9, 2026), "Benjamin Hey (1869-1955)".