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Personal data Willem Gerardus van Diest 


Household of Willem Gerardus van Diest

He is married to Barbara Arnolda Bakker.

They got married on May 12, 1915 at Amersfoort, Gemeente Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland, he was 25 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  2. Hendrik van Diest  1918-1981

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem Gerardus van Diest

Willem Gerardus van Diest
1890-1952

1915

Barbara Arnolda Bakker
1895-1976

Jacobus Wilhelmus van Diest
1916-1995
Hendrik van Diest
1918-1981

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Sources

  1. https://www.openarch.nl/show.php?archive=hua&identifier=28B96158-3C4A-453B-941B-FC8DAA50EAB1⟨=nl
  2. https://www.openarch.nl/show.php?archive=hua&identifier=A5CCEC01-31F7-4D1D-A899-1033AB3B72E7⟨=nl

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Historical events

Birthday March 11, 1890

  • The temperature on March 11, 1890 was about 7.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1890: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
    • April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
    • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
    • September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
    • September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
    • December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Day of marriage May 12, 1915

  • The temperature on May 12, 1915 was between 2.1 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
    • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
    • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death April 3, 1952

  • The temperature on April 3, 1952 was between -1.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
    • February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
    • March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
    • April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
    • September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
    • September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
    • December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.


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Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1890 » Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic († 1974)
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Source: Wikipedia


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