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Personal data Foke Zwiers 


Household of Foke Zwiers

He is married to Aaltje Vlot.

They got married on October 22, 1887 at Ruinerwold (dr), he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Harm Zwiers  1900-1983

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    Birthday May 20, 1863

    • The temperature on May 20, 1863 was about 7.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
      • January 29 » The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
      • February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
      • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
      • June 20 » American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
      • November 18 » King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.

    Day of marriage October 22, 1887

    • The temperature on October 22, 1887 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
      • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
      • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
      • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
      • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
      • October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
      • November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

    Day of death December 19, 1940

    • The temperature on December 19, 1940 was between 0.5 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
      • May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
      • June 10 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
      • July 10 » World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
      • September 16 » World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
      • October 7 » World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
      • November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
    

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