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Personal data Pieter de Wit 

  • He was born on February 28, 1892 in Steenbergen, N-Br, NL.
  • Occupations:
    • from 1913 till 1915 Arbeider.
    • in the year 1972 Zonder beroep.
  • Resident:
    • from 1893 till 1894: C 60, Halsteren.
    • from 1905 till 1906: A 154, Lepelstraat.
    • from 1906 till 1907: Steenbergen.
      16-6-1906 van Lepelstraat naar Steenbergen gegaan
    • from 1909 till 1913: A 154, Lepelstraat.
      10-3-1909 van Steenbergen naar Lepelstraat gekomen
    • in the year 1913: A 183, Lepelstraat.
    • from 1915 till 1972: Steenbergen.
      19-8-1915 van Lepelstraat naar Steenbergen gegaan
  • He died on May 8, 1972 in Steenbergen, N-Br, NL, he was 80 years old.
  • A child of Adriaan de Wit and Cornelia Keijsers
  • This information was last updated on January 17, 2023.

Household of Pieter de Wit

He is married to Maria Slootmans.

They got married on September 20, 1913 at Halsteren, he was 21 years old.


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    Historical events

    Birthday February 28, 1892

    • The temperature on February 28, 1892 was about 2.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
      • March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
      • June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
      • July 7 » The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
      • September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
      • November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

    Day of marriage September 20, 1913

    • The temperature on September 20, 1913 was between 8.8 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
      • January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
      • February 3 » The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
      • February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
      • March 4 » First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
      • August 28 » Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
      • December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.

    Day of death May 8, 1972

    • The temperature on May 8, 1972 was between 10.2 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 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 13 » Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
      • March 30 » Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
      • May 2 » In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.
      • June 30 » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
      • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
      • December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

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