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Personal data Johannes Diederik de Vries 


Household of Johannes Diederik de Vries

He is married to Suzanna John.

They got married on April 10, 1912 at Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland, he was 24 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday December 6, 1887

  • The temperature on December 6, 1887 was about 4.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 1887: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
    • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
    • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
    • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
    • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
    • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

Day of death November 22, 1955

  • The temperature on November 22, 1955 was between 6.8 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1955: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
    • March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
    • April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
    • April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
    • June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
    • July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
    • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1884 » Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic († 1973)
  • 1886 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet († 1918)
  • 1887 » Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer († 1960)
  • 1887 » Lynn Fontanne, British actress († 1983)
  • 1888 » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
  • 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)

Source: Wikipedia


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