Family tree Plugboer » Jan Wit (1861-1944)
Personal data Jan Wit
- He was born on April 29, 1861 in Broek op Langedijk.
- He died on October 9, 1944 in Broek op Langedijk, he was 83 years old.
- A child of Otto Wit and Grietje Wagenaar
Household of Jan Wit
Attention: Wife (Aaltje Wagenaar) is also his cousin.
He is married to Aaltje Wagenaar.
They got married.
Child(ren):
- Cornelis Wit 1893-1975
- Levenloos Wit 1898-1898
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Birthday April 29, 1861
- The temperature on April 29, 1861 was about 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
- From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
- In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 10 » American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
- March 10 » El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
- April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
- April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
- May 13 » The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
- August 28 » American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
Day of death October 9, 1944
- The temperature on October 9, 1944 was between 9.5 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- June 26 » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
- August 7 » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- August 26 » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
- September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
- October 21 » World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMASAustralia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
- December 31 » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
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- 1863 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation († 1951)
- 1872 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and lawyer († 1930)
- 1940 » Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
- 1941 » Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
- 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
- 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
- 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
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