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Het “pater Witteplein” in Den Burg is naar hem vernoemd.
Uitgezonden naar oa Kenya en Tanzania.
De broer van de opa van Fia Witte was missionaris en heeft in Nyeri, een dorp op ca. 150 km van Nairobi een Seminarie opgericht in 1924. Hij was toen 25 jaar jong. Hij overleed in 1969 in Limburg waar hij als priester was gewijd.
Een uniek water filter systeem dat door Pater Witte was uitgedacht en gebouwd werd nog steeds gebruikt (2005) voor het water dat van de berg oplaag komt. Stenen reservoirs en eindeloze watergangen en keerringen zorgen voor helder en goed drinkwater.
Naar hem is het pater Witteplein in Den Burg is vernoemd,dat eigenlijk een hofje is en dat nabij de R.K.-kerk ligt. Het plein begint bij de linkervoorzijde van de kerk en gaat langs de kerk linksom naar het zuiden naar de Keesomlaan en achter de kerk naar de Hollewal. Genoemd naar Michael Joseph Witte, geboren op Texel op 31 januari 1895 en overleden op 24 maart 1961 te Halfweg. Witte werd geprofest in de Congregatie van de Heilige Geeest op 23 september 1917 te Gemert en tot priester gewijd op 28 augustus 1921 te Leuven. Van 1922 tot 1961 was hij werkzaam als missionaris in (Brits) Oost-Afrika. Pater Witte had zijn eigen opvattingen over de missie, was eigenwijs, deed wat hem goed leek en was zeer succesvol. Het Britse bewind benoemde hem in 1937 tot Officer of the British Empire, een hoge onderscheiding. Witte ligt begraven op het kloosterkerkhof van de Paters van de Heilige Geest in Gemert.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Michiel Witte

Dirk Jansz Witte
1840-1887
Antje Tijs Zijm
1839-1902

Michiel Witte
1895-1961


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    Historical events

    Birthday January 31, 1895

    • The temperature on January 31, 1895 was about -5.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
      • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
      • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
      • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
      • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
      • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

    Day of death March 24, 1961

    • The temperature on March 24, 1961 was between 4.1 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
      • January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
      • April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
      • May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
      • May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
      • July 19 » Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
      • November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
    

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    • 1894 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1956)
    • 1896 » Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian († 1966)
    • 1900 » Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector († 1982)
    • 1902 » Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded White Spot († 1978)

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