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Personal data Gert Johannes Potgieter Potgieter 


Household of Gert Johannes Potgieter Potgieter

He is married to Johanna Lodewika van Niekerk.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  1. Anna Sophia Potgieter  1915-2008 

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    Historical events

    Birthday August 26, 1867

    • The temperature on August 26, 1867 was about 25.4 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
    • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
      • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
      • March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
      • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
      • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
      • November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).

    Day of death August 27, 1916

    • The temperature on August 27, 1916 was between 14.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
      • March 16 » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
      • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
      • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
      • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
      • July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
      • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
    

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