Family tree Klavers » Roelof Wijgers (1892-1971)
Personal data Roelof Wijgers
- He was born on December 20, 1892 in Zuidbarge, Emmen.Source 1
- He died on December 19, 1971, he was 78 years old.
- He is buried in Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland.Source 2
- A child of Klaas Wijgers and Willemina Meijering
- This information was last updated on July 8, 2023.
Household of Roelof Wijgers
He is married to Egberdina Hermina Meijerink.
They got married on September 13, 1917 at Hardenberg, Overijssel, he was 24 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Klaas Wijgers 1917-1966
- Frederikus Albertus Wijgers 1919-2013
- (Not public)
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Historical events
Birthday December 20, 1892
- The temperature on December 20, 1892 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
- March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
- June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
- December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of marriage September 13, 1917
- The temperature on September 13, 1917 was between 9.5 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
- July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
- October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
- November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death December 19, 1971
- The temperature on December 19, 1971 was between 3.4 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
- January 2 » The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
- February 8 » South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
- March 1 » President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
- July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
- November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
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