Mitchell Family Tree » Peter John Donkel (1893-1964)
Personal data Peter John Donkel
Source 1- He was born on January 25, 1893 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA.
- He died on July 10, 1964 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA, he was 71 years old.
- A child of Nicolaus Donkel and Margrethe Moreth
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Birthday January 25, 1893
- The temperature on January 25, 1893 was about 2.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
- July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
- September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
- November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
Day of death July 10, 1964
- The temperature on July 10, 1964 was between 10.4 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
- March 20 » The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
- June 19 » The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
- August 1 » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- September 21 » Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
- November 28 » Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
Same birth/death day
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- 1899 » Sleepy John Estes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)
- 1900 » István Fekete, Hungarian author († 1970)
- 1900 » Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author and educator († 1986)
- 1956 » Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1960 » Sæbjørn Buttedahl, Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
- 1962 » Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
- 1963 » Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
- 1970 » Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
- 1971 » Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
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John Mitchell, "Mitchell Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/mitchell-family-tree/P907.php : accessed February 7, 2026), "Peter John Donkel (1893-1964)".
John Mitchell, "Mitchell Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/mitchell-family-tree/P907.php : accessed February 7, 2026), "Peter John Donkel (1893-1964)".