Profession: FABRIKANT, DIRECTEUR VAN F. KLOOS & ZONEN'S WERKPLAATSEN N.V. TE KINDERDIJK, COMMISSARIS VAN DE MACHINEFABRIEK N.V. HENSEN TE ROTTERDAM EN VOORZITTER VAN DE SPAARBANK TE KINDERDIJK..
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
Day of marriage June 5, 1924
The temperature on June 5, 1924 was between 4.5 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
Day of death September 21, 1953
The temperature on September 21, 1953 was between 10.0 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Sim Mostert, "Genealogy Pot en Smit", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie_pot_smit/I611.php : accessed February 9, 2026), "ADRIAAN JAN PRINS VISSER (1893-1953)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.