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Personal data Gertrude Wichers 

  • She was born on March 6, 1897.
  • She died on May 7, 1988, she was 91 years old.
  • This information was last updated on April 2, 2011.

Household of Gertrude Wichers

She is married to John Dengerink.

They got married on October 11, 1917, she was 20 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday March 6, 1897

  • The temperature on March 6, 1897 was about 6.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
    • April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
    • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
    • July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
    • August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
    • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

Day of death May 7, 1988

  • The temperature on May 7, 1988 was between 7.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
    • May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
    • June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
    • August 21 » The 6.9 Mw  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
    • August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
    • October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
    • November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1898 » Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler († 1944)
  • 1900 » Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress († 2001)
  • 1900 » Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author († 1970)
  • 1900 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player († 1975)

Source: Wikipedia


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