Database Schaap » Gerrit Doppenberg (1907-1999)

Personal data Gerrit Doppenberg 

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Household of Gerrit Doppenberg

He is married to Rijkje van der Horst.

They got married on November 19, 1942, he was 35 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday April 15, 1907

  • The temperature on April 15, 1907 was between 4.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
    • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
    • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
    • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
    • December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
    • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Day of death August 7, 1999

  • The temperature on August 7, 1999 was between 15.3 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 27.9 mm of rain during 10.0 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
    • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
    • March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
    • April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
    • August 31 » A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
    • November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
    • December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1904 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator († 1948)
  • 1907 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
  • 1908 » eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist († 1995)
  • 1908 » Lita Grey, American actress († 1995)
  • 1910 » Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician († 1997)
  • 1910 » Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter († 1986)

Source: Wikipedia


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