Family tree Van Willigen » Jan Cornelis van Willigen (1915-1966)
Personal data Jan Cornelis van Willigen
- He was born on January 18, 1915 in Rhenen.
- He died on April 7, 1966, he was 51 years old.
- He is buried in Rhenen.
Begraven in Rhenen, Achterbergsestraatweg.
- A child of Dirk van Willigen and Gerritje Willemina van Ewijk
- This information was last updated on May 20, 2012.
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Birthday January 18, 1915
- The temperature on January 18, 1915 was between -1.5 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
- February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
- August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
- August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
- October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
Day of death April 7, 1966
- The temperature on April 7, 1966 was between 3.6 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
- February 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
- May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
- May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
- June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
- October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
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