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Personal data Evert van Tongeren 

  • He was born on May 22, 1915 in Lienden (Buren), Gelderland, The Netherlands.
  • He died on April 29, 1998, he was 82 years old.
  • He is buried in Lienden (Buren), Gelderland, The Netherlands, nwe alg. begraafplaats, Haagsestraat.
  • This information was last updated on December 7, 2021.

Household of Evert van Tongeren

He is married to Cornelia Gerdina Maria van de Brug.

They got married on April 5, 1939 at Lienden (Buren), Gelderland, The Netherlands, he was 23 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday May 22, 1915

  • The temperature on May 22, 1915 was between 13.2 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
    • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
    • July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
    • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
    • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

Day of death April 29, 1998

  • The temperature on April 29, 1998 was between 4.3 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
    • January 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
    • January 26 » Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
    • February 23 » In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
    • February 28 » Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
    • September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
    • November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1913 » Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter († 1986)
  • 1914 » Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat († 2010)
  • 1914 » Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet († 1993)
  • 1917 » George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist († 2013)
  • 1917 » Jean-Louis Curtis, French author († 1995)

Source: Wikipedia


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