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Personal data Pieter Wilhelmus "Piet" van Diest 

  • Nickname is Piet.
  • He was born on September 28, 1914 in Walikersteeg nr.4 in Amersfoort.
    Registratie van geboorte op 29 september 1914 s'avonds om 23.30 uur geboren
  • Profession: Opperman.
  • Religion: Rooms-katholiek.
  • He died on May 22, 1974 in ZH de Lichtenberg / Amersfoort, he was 59 years old.
    Oorzaak: Slok en Longkanker
    Zaterdag 25 Mei 1974 is om 10.30 uur de gezongen uitvaartmis in de parochiekerk H. Franciscus Xaverius, waarna van de kerk uit de begrafenis zal plaats hebben
  • He is buried on May 25, 1974 in RK Begraafplaats Maranatha Dodeweg in Amersfoort.
  • A child of Jacobus Wilhelmus van Diest and Carolina Johanna van der Heiden
  • This information was last updated on September 29, 2023.

Household of Pieter Wilhelmus "Piet" van Diest

He is married to Hendrika Alijda Johanna van Brakel.

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Broer bruidengom Wilhelmus van Diest
Tante van bruid Alijda van Brakel

Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Amersfoort on April 29, 1939.

They got married on May 10, 1939 at Amersfoort, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Everardus van Diest  1941-2010 


Notes about Pieter Wilhelmus "Piet" van Diest

Woonachtig vanaf 28 september 1914: Walikersteeg nr. 4

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    Birthday September 28, 1914

    • The temperature on September 28, 1914 was between 8.7 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
      • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
      • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
      • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
      • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
      • 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 marriage May 10, 1939

    • The temperature on May 10, 1939 was between 7.1 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
      • February 25 » As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.
      • March 22 » Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
      • March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
      • September 28 » World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
      • October 6 » World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
      • December 18 » World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.

    Day of death May 22, 1974

    • The temperature on May 22, 1974 was between 9.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
      • February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
      • May 1 » The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
      • May 17 » The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
      • June 29 » Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
      • July 24 » Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
      • August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

    Day of burial May 25, 1974

    • The temperature on May 25, 1974 was between 9.5 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
      • March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
      • May 17 » Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
      • November 21 » The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
      • December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
      • December 22 » The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
      • December 24 » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
    

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