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Zaandam 20 april 1909 - Zaandam 18 september 1975
Raadslid vanaf 1935 van de gemeente Zaandam en wethouder vanaf 1956 tot 1974.
Dirk Metselaar werd op twaalfjarige leeftijd lid van de Arbeiders Jeugd Centrale. Zes jaar later werd hij lid van de SDAP, en weer zes jaar later werd hij penningmeester van de afdeling Zaandam van deze partij. In september 1935 kwam hij, 26 jaar oud, in de gemeenteraad van Zaandam. Hij bleef daarin zitting houden tot de ontbinding van de raad door de Duitsers in februari 1941.
Na de oorlog kwam hij onmiddellijk terug in de noodgemeenteraad. In november 1956 werd hij wethouder voor de PvdA. Hij verkocht toen zijn groentehandel aan de Zuiddijk. Metselaar zou wethouder van Zaandam blijven tot deze gemeente opging in Zaanstad. Onder zijn verantwoordelijkheid hadden de grote uitbreidingen van Zaandam plaats. De woonwijken De Vijfhoek, Poelenburg, Peldersveld en Hoornseveld kwamen tot stand en de doorbraak van het stadscentrum via de Beatrixbrug en de Peperstraat werd gerealiseerd.
Voorts was Metselaar één van de stuwende krachten achter de bouw van de Zaanse Schans en was hij voorzitter van de commissie, die het Erasmushuis liet bouwen (zie: Bejaardenzorg
Bejaardenzorg
Bejaardenzorg Welzijnszorg specifiek toegespitst op bejaarden; verschoven van particulieren en/of kerkelijke instanties naar de overheid. Bejaardenzorg als aparte welzijnszorg ontstond voor het eerst duidelijk na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In de 19e eeuw en daarvoor maakte de bejaardenzorg deel uit van de algemene armenzorg (zie: ...
). Bij zijn afscheid werd hij benoemd tot ereburger van Zaandam. Naar zijn naam is in industriegebied Achtersluispolder de Dirk Metselaarhaven gegraven.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dirk Metselaar

Klaas Metselaar
1844-????
Grietje Fraij
1846-????
Klaas Ploeger
1832-????
Trijntje Peetoom
1834-????

Dirk Metselaar
1909-1975


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    Birthday April 20, 1909

    • The temperature on April 20, 1909 was between 7.5 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
      • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
      • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
      • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
      • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
      • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
      • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

    Day of death September 18, 1975

    • The temperature on September 18, 1975 was between 10.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
      • March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
      • May 10 » Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
      • August 23 » The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
      • September 5 » Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
      • September 15 » The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
      • December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
    

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