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Personal data Josephina Wilhelmina Proest 


Household of Josephina Wilhelmina Proest

She is married to Pieter Willem Looijen.

They got married on May 6, 1942 at Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, she was 30 years old.

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Birthday May 14, 1911

  • The temperature on May 14, 1911 was between 10.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
    • January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
    • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
    • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
    • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
    • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Day of death October 7, 1972

  • The temperature on October 7, 1972 was between 4.3 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • January 11 » East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
    • February 1 » Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
    • February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
    • May 30 » The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
    • September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
    • November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1910 » Ken Viljoen, South African cricketer († 1974)
  • 1910 » Ne Win, Prime Minister and President of Burma († 2002)
  • 1914 » Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani journalist, poet, and politician († 1983)
  • 1914 » William Thomas Tutte, British codebreaker and mathematician († 2002)

Source: Wikipedia


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