Family tree Ross - Peters - Hart - van der Willigen » Elsje Cornelia Duif (1884-1947)

Personal data Elsje Cornelia Duif 


Household of Elsje Cornelia Duif

She is married to Pieter van Driessel.

They got married on August 22, 1907 at Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland, she was 23 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday July 10, 1884

  • The temperature on July 10, 1884 was about 25.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
    • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
    • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
    • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
    • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
    • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

Day of death December 16, 1947

  • The temperature on December 16, 1947 was between 5.0 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
    • June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
    • August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
    • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
    • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
    • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
  • 1883 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician († 1952)
  • 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)
  • 1888 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer († 1978)
  • 1888 » Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist († 1960)

Source: Wikipedia


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