Family tree Wernke » Karel Olk (1904-1964)

Personal data Karel Olk 


Household of Karel Olk

He is married to Jansje Geertruida Boomsma.

They got married on August 4, 1927 at Amsterdam, he was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Carla Louise Olk  1928-2021 

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Historical events

Birthday November 5, 1904

  • The temperature on November 5, 1904 was between 8.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
    • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
    • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
    • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
    • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
    • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Day of marriage August 4, 1927

  • The temperature on August 4, 1927 was between 12.2 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
    • April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
    • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
    • May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
    • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
    • September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
    • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

Day of death August 24, 1964

  • The temperature on August 24, 1964 was between 9.5 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
    • January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
    • April 2 » The Soviet Union launches Zond 1.
    • April 4 » The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
    • May 20 » Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
    • July 19 » Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
    • August 1 » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


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