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Personal data Helena Johanna Merks 


Household of Helena Johanna Merks

She is married to Frederik Ruijs.

They got married on April 7, 1915 at Amsterdam, she was 22 years old.Source 1

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Helena Johanna Merks
1892-????

1915

Frederik Ruijs
1891-????


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Historical events

Birthday August 26, 1892

  • The temperature on August 26, 1892 was about 18.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
    • April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
    • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
    • September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
    • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
    • December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.

Day of marriage April 7, 1915

  • The temperature on April 7, 1915 was between 4.3 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
    • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
    • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
    • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
    • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
    • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.


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Source: Wikipedia


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