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Personal data Pieter Willem Nicolaas Merkus 


Household of Pieter Willem Nicolaas Merkus

He is married to Henriette Charlotte van Citters.

They got married on December 1, 1887 at Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, he was 23 years old.

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Birthday June 27, 1864

  • The temperature on June 27, 1864 was about 16.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
    • March 15 » American Civil War: The Red River Campaign: U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
    • April 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
    • May 7 » The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
    • May 21 » The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
    • November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

Day of death January 30, 1915

  • The temperature on January 30, 1915 was between -4.7 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
    • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
    • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
    • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
    • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
    • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1862 » May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1938)
  • 1865 » John Monash, Australian engineer and general († 1931)
  • 1869 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist († 1940)
  • 1869 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
  • 1869 » Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist († 1961)
  • 1870 » Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist († 1947)

Source: Wikipedia


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