Ik heb een kopie van zijn geboorte-aangifte. Vader Klaas Balk doet de aangifte, is 34 en watermolenaar. Adriaan werd om 5 uur 's middags geborenin een huis aan de Westersingel nummer 3 in Hoorn. Hij is er een van een tweeling, want zijn broer Pieter werd een kwartier eerder geboren. Getuigen: Teunis Koops, 48 en kuiper en Cornelis Bouman, 33 en stalhouder. Beide mannen wonen in Hoorn.
They got married on October 18, 1918 at Zuid-en Noord-Schermer, he was 24 years old.
Ik heb een kopie van de huwelijksakte. Adriaan is slager en woont in Zuid- en Noord-Schermer. Zijn vader is korenmolenaar. De afkondiging was opzondag 5 oktober. Getuigen waren: Pieter Balk, 24, groenhandelaar in Hoorn en broer van de bruidegom. Klaas de Boer , 31, gemeentecommies, uit Hoorn en zwager van de bruidegom.
Cornelia is kennelijk jong overleden en haar dochter Meinouwtje Klazina werd daarom als halfzusje opgevoed in het gezin van Neeltje Slooten. Ik heb een kopie van een gezinskaart: het gezin is Nederlands Hervormd en Adriaan staat als slager vermeld. In 1918, het jaar van hun huwelijk, kwamen zij in de gemeente Zuid- en Noord-Schermer. Adriaan kwam uit Heiloo en Cornelia uit Sint Pancras. In 1920 vertrokken ze naar Hoorn. Adriaan is in Indonesie geweest als koloniaal; hij had daarvoor getekend.Adriaan woonde in 1926 en 1927 in bij Neeltje Slooten: Dahliastraat 13 en 11. (Neeltje was in 1924 gescheiden van Simon Kieft) Ook periodes in 1930 en 1932. Adressen: Laat 67, Koningstraat 1a en Omval 92.
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 Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Day of marriage November 12, 1953
The temperature on November 12, 1953 was between 6.9 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
Day of death May 2, 1961
The temperature on May 2, 1961 was between 10.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
September 18 » CONCACAF is established as the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
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