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Personal data Jhr. Gerrit Willem Eekhout 


Household of Jhr. Gerrit Willem Eekhout

He is married to Johanna Harmina Diekman.

They got married on August 27, 1945 at Leiden, Gemeente Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, he was 33 years old.


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Birthday February 26, 1912

  • The temperature on February 26, 1912 was between 2.5 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
    • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
    • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
    • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
    • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
    • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.

Day of marriage August 27, 1945

  • The temperature on August 27, 1945 was between 10.2 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
    • February 14 » World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
    • April 11 » World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
    • May 1 » World War II: Yugoslav Partisans liberate Trieste.
    • May 23 » World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
    • August 8 » The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
    • October 25 » Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.

Day of death October 22, 1954

  • The temperature on October 22, 1954 was between 9.5 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
    • April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
    • August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
    • September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
    • September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
    • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.


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