Descendants Heeres » Bessel van Dijk (1922-1995)

Personal data Bessel van Dijk 

  • He was born on February 4, 1922 in Heerde.
  • He died April 1995 in Canada, he was 73 years old.
  • This information was last updated on November 3, 2005.

Household of Bessel van Dijk

He is married to Berendina Eikelboom.

They got married on January 29, 1947 at Heerde, he was 24 years old.

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Birthday February 4, 1922

  • The temperature on February 4, 1922 was between -10.6 °C and -4.1 °C and averaged -7.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 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)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • 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 1922: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
    • March 18 » In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
    • April 7 » The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
    • July 9 » Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
    • August 27 » Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
    • September 18 » The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
    • December 8 » Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.


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  • 1923 » Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor († 2013)
  • 1925 » Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator († 2011)
  • 1925 » Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian († 2013)

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