May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of marriage August 1, 1918
The temperature on August 1, 1918 was between 5.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 31 » Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
June 26 » World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
August 13 » Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
September 26 » World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.
October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
December 1 » Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Jan Kaper, "Family tree Kaper", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-kaper/I41557.php : accessed February 25, 2026), "Hendrikus Petrus Goorsenberg (1896-????)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.