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Personal data Hendrik Christiaan van Balen
- He was born on November 29, 1895 in Bodegraven, Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland.
- Profession: koopman.
- He died on February 6, 1967 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands, he was 71 years old.
- Death registration.Source 1
- A child of Pieter van Balen and Jannigje Goebel
- This information was last updated on October 26, 2023.
Household of Hendrik Christiaan van Balen
He is married to Christina Wendt.
They got married on May 29, 1922 at Alkmaar, Gemeente Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland, he was 26 years old.Source 2
The couple were divorced from August 15, 1947 at Alkmaar, Gemeente Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
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Historical events
Birthday November 29, 1895
- The temperature on November 29, 1895 was about 0.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
- February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
- February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
- June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
- December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of marriage May 29, 1922
- The temperature on May 29, 1922 was between 6.4 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
- March 20 » The USSLangley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- June 17 » Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
- July 15 » Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
- August 22 » Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
- October 31 » Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy
- November 26 » The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
Day of death February 6, 1967
- The temperature on February 6, 1967 was between 1.3 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
- April 14 » Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
- May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
- June 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
- September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- October 29 » Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
Same birth/death day
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- 1895 » William Tubman, Liberian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Liberia († 1971)
- 1898 » C. S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic († 1963)
- 1899 » Andrija Artuković, Croatian Minister of Interior († 1988)
- 1899 » Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, oldest Italian person ever, last verified person born in the 1800s († 2017)
- 1958 » victims of the Munich air disaster
- 1963 » Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
- 1964 » Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
- 1967 » Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
- 1972 » Julian Steward, American anthropologist (b. 1902)
- 1976 » Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
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