Family tree Klavers » Geesje Benjamins (1883-1961)
Personal data Geesje Benjamins
- She was born on May 31, 1883 in Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe.
- Birth registration on June 1, 1883.Source 1
- Fact: (vermelding) Bloedverwantschap met Jordi en Quinten Klavers in %: 0,0281.
- She died on April 27, 1961 in Hoogeveen, Drenthe, she was 77 years old.
- Death registration on April 28, 1961.Source 2
- A child of Benjamin Benjamins and Bartha Zwiers
- This information was last updated on February 21, 2022.
Household of Geesje Benjamins
She is married to Jan Dekker.
They got married on April 29, 1905 at Hoogeveen, Drenthe, she was 21 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Geert Dekker 1925-1926
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Historical events
Birthday May 31, 1883
- The temperature on May 31, 1883 was about 16.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- February 23 » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
- May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
- July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
- August 25 » France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
- October 20 » Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
- December 21 » The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.
Day of marriage April 29, 1905
- The temperature on April 29, 1905 was between 7.8 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
- March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
- May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
- June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
- September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
Day of death April 27, 1961
- The temperature on April 27, 1961 was between 8.9 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
- April 8 » A large explosion on board the MVDara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
- June 1 » The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
- July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
- August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
- September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Same birth/death day
- 1875 » Rosa May Billinghurst, British suffragette and women's rights activist (d.1953)
- 1879 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano († 1952)
- 1882 » Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War († 1956)
- 1883 » Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland († 1942)
- 1885 » Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia († 1967)
- 1887 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
- 1952 » Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (b. 1865)
- 1961 » Roy Del Ruth, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
- 1962 » A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, Pakistani Minister of the Interior (b. 1873)
- 1965 » Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
- 1967 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (b. 1884)
- 1969 » René Barrientos, Bolivian soldier, pilot, and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
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