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Personal data Willem Gerbrand van Zwet 


Household of Willem Gerbrand van Zwet

He is married to Aartje Hamelink.

They got married on September 14, 1929 at 's-Gravenhage, he was 26 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday June 14, 1903

  • The temperature on June 14, 1903 was between 8.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
    • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
    • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
    • June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
    • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
    • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
    • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.

Day of death April 14, 1950

  • The temperature on April 14, 1950 was between -0.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
    • January 31 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
    • March 1 » Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
    • April 8 » India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
    • June 24 » Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
    • June 25 » The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
    • September 24 » The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1900 » Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher († 2003)
  • 1903 » Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician († 1995)
  • 1903 » Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1980)
  • 1904 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist († 1971)
  • 1905 » Arthur Davis, American animator and director († 2000)
  • 1905 » Steve Broidy, American businessman († 1991)

Source: Wikipedia


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