Descendants Hemerik-Broekhuizen-Huner-Koper-Barink » Matthijs de Laaf (1871-1946)

Personal data Matthijs de Laaf 


Household of Matthijs de Laaf

He is married to Alida Nieuwenhuizen.

They got married on May 18, 1898 at Leiden, he was 27 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday April 20, 1871

  • The temperature on April 20, 1871 was about 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
    • March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
    • March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
    • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
    • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
    • December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

Day of marriage May 18, 1898

  • The temperature on May 18, 1898 was about 10.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
    • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
    • August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
    • August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
    • September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
    • October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

Day of death March 15, 1946

  • The temperature on March 15, 1946 was between -2.4 and 3.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • 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 Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
    • January 10 » The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
    • March 6 » Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
    • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
    • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
    • June 23 » The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    • December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

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