Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Gerardus Zaan (1913-1997)

Personal data Gerardus Zaan 


Household of Gerardus Zaan

He is married to Anna Margaretha Keuter.

They got married on August 25, 1942 at Emmen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Zaan  1946-1946

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  1. Johan Bernard (Broer) Berens CBB134 https://fjmblom.home.xs4all.nl/
    Pauline Berens: Genealogienetwerk zus Greetje Berens voorheen EemslandBoekweitBoerenImmigratie
    https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-dutch-connection/I6823.php
  2. Kerstin Zaan

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Historical events

  • The temperature on November 5, 1913 was between 2.8 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
    • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
    • May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
    • May 30 » The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
    • August 13 » First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
    • November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
  • The temperature on August 25, 1942 was between 10.5 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
    • June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
    • August 30 » World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
    • October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
    • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
    • December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
  • The temperature on January 21, 1997 was between -2.2 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
    • February 11 » Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
    • June 25 » The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
    • July 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
    • August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
    • September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
    • November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.


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  • 1913 » Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 2005)
  • 1913 » John McGiver, American actor († 1975)
  • 1913 » Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress († 1967)
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Pauline Berens BC, "Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/ofb-barger-compascuum/I6823.php : accessed March 8, 2026), "Gerardus Zaan (1913-1997)".