Descendants Heeres » Gerrigje Westera (1878-1946)

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Household of Gerrigje Westera

She is married to Herman Klaassen.

They got married on September 14, 1905 at Zwollerkerspel (Gem. Zwolle), she was 26 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrigje Westera

Gerrit Westera
1820-1883
Hilligjen Kooijker
1823-1889
Annigje Boom
1857-1935

Gerrigje Westera
1878-1946

1905

Herman Klaassen
1878-1956


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Birthday November 11, 1878

  • The temperature on November 11, 1878 was about 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
    • January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
    • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
    • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
    • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
    • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Day of marriage September 14, 1905

  • The temperature on September 14, 1905 was between 4.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
    • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
    • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
    • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
    • September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
    • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

Day of death June 9, 1946

  • The temperature on June 9, 1946 was between 12.1 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
    • January 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
    • February 24 » Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
    • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
    • May 7 » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
    • June 23 » The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.


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