Parentele of Jan Thonis » Harmen Meewis (1899-1994)

Personal data Harmen Meewis 


Household of Harmen Meewis

He is married to Harmijntje van den Bor.

They got married on March 26, 1924 at Nijkerk, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Maria Meewis  1924-2016 
  2. Cornelis Meewis  1926-1945
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  • The temperature on July 11, 1899 was about 23.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
    • July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
    • July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
    • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
    • September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
    • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
  • The temperature on March 26, 1924 was between 3.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 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.
  • In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
    • January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
    • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
    • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
    • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
    • October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
    • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
  • The temperature on January 31, 1994 was between 3.9 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
    • April 4 » Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
    • April 6 » The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
    • May 9 » Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
    • June 1 » Republic of South Africa becomes a Commonwealth republic.
    • October 14 » Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
    • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1895 » Dorothy Wilde, English author and poet († 1941)
  • 1897 » Bull Connor, American police officer († 1973)
  • 1899 » E. B. White, American essayist and journalist († 1985)
  • 1899 » Wilfrid Israel, German businessman and philanthropist († 1943)
  • 1901 » Gwendolyn Lizarraga, Belizean businesswoman, activist, and politician († 1975)
  • 1903 » Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel († 1971)

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Tijs van den Brink, "Parentele of Jan Thonis", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/jan-thonis/I56951.php : accessed March 5, 2026), "Harmen Meewis (1899-1994)".