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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wilem Meenks

Willem Meenks
1848-1931
Mina Pieffers
1850-1903
Jan Hendrik Mensink
1835-1916
Aalken Smit
1845-1916

Wilem Meenks
1915-1945


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Historical events

Birthday December 20, 1915

  • The temperature on December 20, 1915 was between -1.4 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 13 » The 6.7 Mw  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
    • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
    • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
    • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
    • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death March 15, 1945

  • The temperature on March 15, 1945 was between 0.5 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
    • March 29 » World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
    • April 17 » World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.
    • May 5 » World War II: Dönitz gives Löhr permission to seek an armistice with the Western Allies to preserve a communist free Austria and recognising first, from a German standpoint, the separation of Austria from Germany undoing the Anschluss.
    • July 17 » World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
    • July 26 » World War II: HMSVestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
    • September 16 » World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1914 » Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician († 2013)
  • 1915 » Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet († 1995)
  • 1916 » Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist († 2010)
  • 1917 » Audrey Totter, American actress († 2013)
  • 1917 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author († 1997)
  • 1917 » David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher († 1992)

Source: Wikipedia


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