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Personal data Cornelis Balk 


Household of Cornelis Balk

He is married to Lamberta Bekkering.

They got married on February 15, 1915 at Amsterdam, he was 28 years old.

Ze hebben een zoon en een dochter.

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Historical events

  • The temperature on September 29, 1886 was about 16.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 55 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
    • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
    • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
    • September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
  • The temperature on February 2, 1943 was between 5.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • February 14 » World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
    • March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
    • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
    • June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
    • June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
    • October 21 » World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.


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Johanna Lodewijks, "Family tree Dusseljee", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-dusseljee/I3758.php : accessed January 27, 2026), "Cornelis Balk (1886-1943)".