Genealogy Romeijnders » Johannes van Zoest (1879-1906)

Personal data Johannes van Zoest 


Household of Johannes van Zoest

He is married to Johanna Balvers.

They got married on January 27, 1903 at Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 23 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday December 7, 1879

  • The temperature on December 7, 1879 was about -4.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 25 » The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
    • March 29 » Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
    • May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
    • July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
    • September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
    • October 8 » War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.

Day of marriage January 27, 1903

  • The temperature on January 27, 1903 was between 5.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 1903: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
    • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
    • February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
    • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
    • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
    • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
    • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

Day of death March 1, 1906

  • The temperature on March 1, 1906 was between 0.8 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
    • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
    • August 16 » The 8.2 Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
    • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
    • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
    • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).


Same birth/death day

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  • 1878 » Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer († 1942)
  • 1879 » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic († 1972)
  • 1884 » John Carpenter, American sprinter († 1933)
  • 1885 » Mason Phelps, American golfer († 1945)
  • 1885 » Peter Sturholdt, American boxer and painter († 1919)

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