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Personal data Gerrit van den Driest 


Household of Gerrit van den Driest

He is married to Francina Geensen.

They got married on August 3, 1933 at Axel, Zeeland, Nederland, he was 28 years old.


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Gerrit van den Driest
1904-2000

1933

Francina Geensen
1908-1995

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Birthday August 8, 1904

  • The temperature on August 8, 1904 was between 9.9 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (58%). 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 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 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
    • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
    • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
    • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
    • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
    • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Day of marriage August 3, 1933

  • The temperature on August 3, 1933 was between 10.7 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
    • March 13 » Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
    • March 15 » Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
    • March 20 » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
    • April 24 » Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
    • May 18 » New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
    • November 17 » The United States recognizes the Soviet Union.

Day of death April 15, 2000

  • The temperature on April 15, 2000 was between 5.5 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
    • February 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
    • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
    • August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
    • September 20 » The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
    • September 26 » Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
    • November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.


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