Famylje De Swart -- Wijmenga » Jan Gerrits Bergsma (1892-1953)

Personal data Jan Gerrits Bergsma 


Household of Jan Gerrits Bergsma

He is married to Tietje Cornelis Post.

They got married on May 7, 1914 at Het Bildt, he was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Gerrit Bergsma  1916-1977 
  2. (Not public)
  3. Willemtje Bergsma  1920-2008 
  4. Hiltje Bergsma  1933-2015 

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Birthday January 12, 1892

  • The temperature on January 12, 1892 was about -1.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
    • July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
    • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
    • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
    • October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
    • December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.

Day of marriage May 7, 1914

  • The temperature on May 7, 1914 was between 7.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
    • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
    • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
    • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
    • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
    • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

Day of death April 20, 1953

  • The temperature on April 20, 1953 was between 1.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
    • February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
    • April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
    • June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
    • July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
    • July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
    • October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.


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