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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wilhelmus de Rijk

Wilhelmus (Guilliaume) Radts
1807-1891
Hendrina van Boekholt
1802-1866

Wilhelmus de Rijk
1894-1956


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    Historical events

    Birthday October 4, 1894

    • The temperature on October 4, 1894 was about 10.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 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 1894: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
      • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
      • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
      • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
      • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
      • November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.

    Day of death May 19, 1956

    • The temperature on May 19, 1956 was between 1.6 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • 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 1956: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
      • May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
      • July 9 » The 7.7 Mw  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
      • August 6 » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
      • October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
      • November 1 » The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
      • November 5 » Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
    

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