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Personal data Petrus Gesthuizen 


Household of Petrus Gesthuizen

He is married to Hermina Johanna Knoop.

They got married on August 5, 1937 at Nijmegen, Nederland, he was 26 years old.


Notes about Petrus Gesthuizen

Petrus ("Piet") Gesthuizen was in 1937 gehuwd met Hermina Johanna ("An") Knoop. Zij kregen drie kinderen: Jan, Piet en Naud. Waarschijnlijk heeft vader Piet, die lang ondergedoken zat om de Arbeitseinsatz te ontlopen, na de bevrijdingsstrijd om Nijmegen gedacht eind september '44 veilig naar familie in Beuningen te kunnen gaan. Bij het droppen van de bommenlast uit een aangeschoten Duitse bommenwerper boven de Heemstrabaan in Beuningen op 28 september '44 verloor Petrus echter het leven. Zijn schoonvader Knoop en zijn zoon Jantje raakten zwaargewond, maar overleefden. Blijkens de tekst in het begrafenisboek van de kerk in Beuningen woonde Piet met zijn gezin in de Theresiaparochie in Nijmegen.


Second World War victim


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Historical events

Birthday April 28, 1911

  • The temperature on April 28, 1911 was between 5.7 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
    • March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
    • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
    • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
    • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
    • November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

Day of marriage August 5, 1937

  • The temperature on August 5, 1937 was between 11.5 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
    • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
    • April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
    • May 7 » Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
    • May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
    • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.

Day of death September 28, 1944

  • The temperature on September 28, 1944 was between 5.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • August 16 » First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
    • October 21 » World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
    • October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
    • November 16 » World War II: Düren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers.
    • November 24 » World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
    • December 31 » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.


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