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Household of Nicolaas "Niek" Heemskerk

He is married to Adriana Christina van Kouterik.

They got married.

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Historical events

Birthday September 11, 1926

  • The temperature on September 11, 1926 was between 14.0 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
    • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
    • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
    • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
    • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
    • August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
    • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.

Day of death April 16, 2016

  • The temperature on April 16, 2016 was between 5.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
    • January 3 » Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
    • January 12 » Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
    • March 27 » A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
    • April 10 » An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
    • September 29 » Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
    • December 7 » Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1924 » Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer, and politician († 2018)
  • 1924 » Tom Landry, American football player and coach († 2000)
  • 1925 » Harry Somers, Canadian soldier and composer († 1999)
  • 1926 » Eddie Miksis, American baseball player († 2005)
  • 1927 » G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman († 1996)
  • 1927 » Keith Holman, Australian rugby league player and coach († 2011)

Source: Wikipedia


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