1001 Stambomen en vele Hollandgänger van Johan Scholte » Bernardus Johannus "Bennie" Westen (1929-1999)

Personal data Bernardus Johannus "Bennie" Westen 

  • Nickname is Bennie.
  • He was born on August 8, 1929 in Ter Apel-Vlagtwedde(Gr).
  • He died on March 20, 1999 in Ter Apelkanaal-Vlagtwedde(Gr), he was 69 years old.
  • This information was last updated on February 22, 2007.

Household of Bernardus Johannus "Bennie" Westen

He is married to Maria Elisabeth Poker.

They got married on March 27, 1957 at Stadskanaal(Gr)-Onstwedde, he was 27 years old.

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Birthday August 8, 1929

  • The temperature on August 8, 1929 was between 11.3 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
    • February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
    • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
    • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
    • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
    • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death March 20, 1999

  • The temperature on March 20, 1999 was between 2.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
    • February 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
    • February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
    • March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
    • April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
    • May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
    • August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.


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