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Personal data Besseltje de Wit 

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Household of Besseltje de Wit

She is married to Gerrit Brasser.

They got married on June 26, 1880 at Huizen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, she was 41 years old.Source 1

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Historical events

Birthday September 6, 1838

  • The temperature on September 6, 1838 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt regen bui. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1838: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 26 » Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States.
    • June 10 » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
    • September 1 » Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established.
    • September 3 » Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
    • September 18 » The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
    • November 3 » The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

Day of death February 7, 1917

  • The temperature on February 7, 1917 was between -10.5 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
    • May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
    • October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
    • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
    • December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.


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