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Personal data Gerrit Hendrik Wessels 


Household of Gerrit Hendrik Wessels

He is married to Reina Vos.

They got married on December 24, 1914 at Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland, he was 23 years old.

Datum: huwelijksakte 28

Child(ren):

  1. Marchje Wessels  1915-1999 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Hendrik Wessels

Johannes Wessels
1823-1901
Johanna Peeze
1821-1899
Lubbert Schepers
1821-1886
Aaltje Karst
1827-1875

Gerrit Hendrik Wessels
1891-1969

1914

Reina Vos
1895-1982

Marchje Wessels
1915-1999

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    Historical events

    Birthday November 5, 1891

    • The temperature on November 5, 1891 was about 4.9 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
      • March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
      • May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
      • May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
      • August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
      • October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.

    Day of marriage December 24, 1914

    • The temperature on December 24, 1914 was between -3.7 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
      • March 8 » First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
      • August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
      • August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
      • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
      • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
      • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

    Day of death November 27, 1969

    • The temperature on November 27, 1969 was between -1.6 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.6 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
      • March 2 » In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
      • March 25 » During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
      • June 23 » Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
      • August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
      • August 21 » Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.
      • December 17 » Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
    

    Same birth/death day

    Source: Wikipedia

    • 1887 » Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator († 1961)
    • 1890 » Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator († 1977)
    • 1892 » J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist († 1964)
    • 1892 » John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force († 1919)
    • 1893 » Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer († 1986)
    • 1894 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician († 1960)

    Source: Wikipedia


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