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Personal data Gerrit Jan van Elst 


Household of Gerrit Jan van Elst

(1) He is married to Johanna Catharina van Barneveld.

They got married on July 28, 1921 at Amsterdam, he was 25 years old.


(2) He had a relationship with Grietje van Os.

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Historical events

Birthday July 14, 1896

  • The temperature on July 14, 1896 was about 22.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
    • June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
    • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
    • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
    • August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
    • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Day of death August 29, 1957

  • The temperature on August 29, 1957 was between 7.7 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
    • January 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
    • March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
    • April 11 » United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
    • June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
    • September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
    • October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.


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Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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