Family tree Van Willigen » Gerrit Ekelmans (1873-1938)

Personal data Gerrit Ekelmans 


Household of Gerrit Ekelmans

He is married to Geertje van Willigen.

They got married on September 29, 1893 at Haaften, he was 20 years old.


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Historical events

Day of marriage September 29, 1893

  • The temperature on September 29, 1893 was about 15.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 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 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
    • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
    • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
    • August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
    • September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
    • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

Day of death April 19, 1938

  • The temperature on April 19, 1938 was between -0.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
    • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
    • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
    • October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
    • November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
    • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.


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