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Personal data Jan van Wijk 


Household of Jan van Wijk

He is married to Rensktje Hummel.

They got married on December 9, 1944 at Leek (Gr), he was 26 years old.Source 2

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan van Wijk

Jan Derks van Wijk
1837-1923
Margien Vorenkamp
1836-1918
Jan van Wijk
1874-1957
Eltje Pruim
1872-1965

Jan van Wijk
1918-1986

1944

Rensktje Hummel
1921-1991


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Historical events

Birthday September 14, 1918

  • The temperature on September 14, 1918 was between 8.9 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
    • April 20 » Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
    • June 10 » The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMSSzent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
    • July 9 » In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
    • August 8 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
    • December 14 » Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
    • December 16 » Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.

Day of marriage December 9, 1944

  • The temperature on December 9, 1944 was between 0.5 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
    • January 27 » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
    • April 4 » World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
    • November 1 » World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
    • November 29 » World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
    • December 15 » World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.

Day of death December 17, 1986

  • The temperature on December 17, 1986 was between 2.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • March 7 » Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USSPreserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
    • May 2 » Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
    • June 4 » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
    • August 20 » In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
    • November 25 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
    • November 26 » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1917 » Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor († 2002)
  • 1918 » Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer († 2008)
  • 1918 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver († 1967)
  • 1919 » Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and broadcaster († 1976)
  • 1919 » Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician († 2001)
  • 1919 » Olga Lowe, South African-English actress († 2013)

Source: Wikipedia


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