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Personal data Wessel Harms van Meggelen 


Household of Wessel Harms van Meggelen

He is married to Maria Geertruida van de Zande.

They got married on May 26, 1898 at Groningen, he was 25 years old.


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  • The temperature on April 10, 1873 was about 11.4 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 38%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
  • In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
    • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
    • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
    • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
    • September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
    • October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
  • The temperature on May 26, 1898 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
    • April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
    • July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
    • September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
    • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
    • October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
  • The temperature on September 29, 1942 was between 5.3 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
    • February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
    • April 8 » World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
    • June 10 » World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
    • July 10 » World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
    • December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.


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Herman Wessels, "Family tree Wessels, een familie met de roots vanuit Heije, Duitsland", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-wessels/R530.php : accessed June 16, 2024), "Wessel Harms van Meggelen (1873-1942)".