Family tree Alta » Jan Siesz ROTGANS (1883-1954)

Personal data Jan Siesz ROTGANS 


Household of Jan Siesz ROTGANS

He is married to Janke ALTA.

Uit dit huwelijk:1 Jan Sies Rotgans, geboren in het jaar 1909, wonende te Velsen.Hij is getrouwd te Den Haag op 18 oktober 1940 met J Th Werker.2 Cornelia Minnie Johanna Rotgans, geboren in het jaar 1912.Zij was gehuwd met J J Smith, wonende te Wassenaar.3 Johannes Pieter Rotgans, geboren in het jaar 1914, wonende te Auckland (Nieuw Zeeland). Hij was gehuwd met Viria Andrews, overleden te Auckland (Nieuw Zeeland) op 24 april 1962.

They got married on June 5, 1908 at Terschelling, he was 25 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday May 3, 1883

  • The temperature on May 3, 1883 was about 9.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
    • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
    • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
    • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
    • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
    • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

Day of death December 8, 1954

  • The temperature on December 8, 1954 was between -1.1 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
    • February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
    • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
    • September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
    • November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
    • November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.


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