Ancestors Lara Snijders » Johannes Biesma (1903-1972)

Personal data Johannes Biesma 


Household of Johannes Biesma

He is married to Engelina Zwarteveen.

They got married on December 23, 1948 at Enschede, he was 45 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday August 17, 1903

  • The temperature on August 17, 1903 was between 10.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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.
    • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
    • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
    • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
    • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
    • September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
    • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Day of death June 18, 1972

  • The temperature on June 18, 1972 was between 9.7 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • January 11 » East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
    • February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
    • February 29 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
    • April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
    • May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
    • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1900 » Pauline A. Young, African-American teacher, historian, aviator and activist († 1991)
  • 1900 » Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer († 1957)
  • 1904 » Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist († 1991)
  • 1904 » Mary Cain, American journalist and politician († 1984)
  • 1909 » Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1985)
  • 1909 » Wilf Copping, English footballer († 1980)

Source: Wikipedia


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