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Personal data Cornelis Briët 


Household of Cornelis Briët

He is married to Hendrika Adriana Kleijn van Willigen.

They got married on October 24, 1912 at Rotterdam, he was 26 years old.


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Birthday July 12, 1886

  • The temperature on July 12, 1886 was about 16.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
    • July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
    • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
    • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Day of marriage October 24, 1912

  • The temperature on October 24, 1912 was between 3.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
    • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
    • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
    • April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
    • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
    • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.

Day of death September 19, 1958

  • The temperature on September 19, 1958 was between 8.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
    • April 4 » The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
    • May 13 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
    • July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
    • September 12 » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
    • December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
    • December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.


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