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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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
    • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
    • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
    • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
    • October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
    • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Day of marriage September 14, 1905

  • The temperature on September 14, 1905 was between 4.2 °C and 17.6 °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.
    • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
    • May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
    • 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 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
    • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
    • December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

Day of death June 9, 1946

  • The temperature on June 9, 1946 was between 11.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °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.
    • March 19 » French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
    • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
    • June 7 » The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
    • September 19 » The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
    • December 9 » The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
    • December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.


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