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Personal data Willem van Wanrooij
- He was born on February 21, 1911 in Buer, Gelsenkirchen, Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen, Regierungsbezirk Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duitsland.
- He died on October 3, 1997 in Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, he was 86 years old.
- A child of Gerardus van Wanrooij and Rika Krijnen
- This information was last updated on February 1, 2017.
Household of Willem van Wanrooij
He is married to Elisabeth Josephine Leidner.
They got married on July 30, 1936 at Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, he was 25 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- (Not public)
- Eduard van Wanrooij 1938-1960
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Birthday February 21, 1911
- The temperature on February 21, 1911 was between 1.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
- May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
- May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
- June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
- July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
- September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
Day of marriage July 30, 1936
- The temperature on July 30, 1936 was between 9.0 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
- March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
- June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
- July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
- August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
- October 5 » The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Day of death October 3, 1997
- The temperature on October 3, 1997 was between 6.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
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