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Household of Marten Merkus

He is married to Petronella Geertruida Gerritsen.

They got married on September 24, 1912 at Zwolle (Ov), he was 31 years old.Source 2

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1881, Kollumerland c.a.
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Historical events

Birthday March 15, 1881

  • The temperature on March 15, 1881 was about 11.0 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 27%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
    • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
    • June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
    • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
    • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
    • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Day of marriage September 24, 1912

  • The temperature on September 24, 1912 was between 4.4 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
    • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
    • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
    • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
    • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
    • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.

Day of death January 31, 1954

  • The temperature on January 31, 1954 was between -12.1 °C and -4.3 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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)
  • 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 year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • January 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
    • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
    • July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
    • August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
    • October 10 » The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
    • November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.


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