Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Willem Schalk Jacobus POTGIETER (1916-1988)

Personal data Willem Schalk Jacobus POTGIETER 


Household of Willem Schalk Jacobus POTGIETER

He is married to Jakomina Elizabeth de NYSSCHEN.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  2. (Not public)


Notes about Willem Schalk Jacobus POTGIETER

Lived on farm Klipdrift,Broedersroomdrift,Dist Tzaneen. Children:It is believed that there was another child (daughter) who died in infancy.No information available.

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    Historical events

    Birthday May 19, 1916

    • The temperature on May 19, 1916 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
      • May 31 » World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
      • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
      • September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
      • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
      • October 27 » Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
      • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

    Day of death September 12, 1988

    • The temperature on September 12, 1988 was between 7.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
      • February 6 » Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
      • March 17 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
      • June 27 » The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
      • August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
      • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
      • December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

    Day of burial September 15, 1988

    • The temperature on September 15, 1988 was between 10.0 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
      • March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
      • March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
      • June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
      • August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
      • August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
      • September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
    

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