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Personal data Joseph Nien 

  • He was born on May 31, 1889 in Weert, Limburg, Netherlands.
  • Profession: Olt.Inf. | KNIL.
  • He died on September 20, 1944 in At sea, he was 55 years old.Source 1
    Died of wound by shot through abdomen at 13:30 on 20 September 1944. Died on board of ship "Kaisyun-Maru" located 5°04'S 123°28'E
    Oorzaak: Tweede Wereldoorlogslachtoffer
  • Death registration.Source 2
  • A child of Jacobus Joannes Nien and Gertudis Hubertina Hendrikx
  • This information was last updated on August 31, 2024.

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Sources

  1. https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/persoon/109783/via-openarch-nl/?utm_source=OpenArchieven&utm_medium=browser&utm_campaign=OpenData
  2. https://www.openarch.nl/ghn:88d4c210-5d80-4eed-8ec8-8480a60b9d11

Historical events

Birthday May 31, 1889

  • The temperature on May 31, 1889 was about 15.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
    • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
    • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
    • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
    • November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
    • November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

Day of death September 20, 1944

  • The temperature on September 20, 1944 was between 7.5 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
    • January 5 » The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.
    • July 17 » Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
    • July 21 » World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
    • August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
    • August 7 » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
    • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.


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