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Personal data William van Damwijk 


Household of William van Damwijk

He is married to Maudy Donkers.

They got married.

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Sources

  1. https://www.regionaalarchieftilburg.nl/zoek-een-persoon/persons?ss=%7B%22q%22:%22Maudy%20Donkers%22%7D

Historical events

Birthday November 23, 1918

  • The temperature on November 23, 1918 was between -2.9 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
    • February 24 » Estonian Declaration of Independence.
    • July 4 » Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
    • August 29 » World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
    • November 7 » Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
    • November 12 » Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.

Day of death December 12, 1978

  • The temperature on December 12, 1978 was between 7.8 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
    • March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
    • April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
    • May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
    • June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
    • July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
    • December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1916 » Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor († 2011)
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  • 1920 » Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator († 1970)

Source: Wikipedia


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