Family tree Fopma/Bouma » Gerrit Douwes Willemsma (1915-1996)

Personal data Gerrit Douwes Willemsma 


Household of Gerrit Douwes Willemsma

He is married to Anna Heerkes Feenstra.

They got married in the year 1946, he was 30 years old.

MARR: RFN 436238

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Notes about Gerrit Douwes Willemsma

BIRT: RFN 435753
ADDR: RFN 435754
DEAT: RFN 436214
BURI: RFN 436215

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Historical events

Birthday January 8, 1915

  • The temperature on January 8, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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)
  • 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
    • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
    • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
    • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
    • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
    • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Day of death June 19, 1996

  • The temperature on June 19, 1996 was between 11.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
    • March 23 » Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
    • May 11 » After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
    • May 20 » Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
    • October 7 » Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
    • November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
    • November 19 » Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

Day of burial June 22, 1996

  • The temperature on June 22, 1996 was between 9.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
    • February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
    • February 29 » Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
    • May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
    • June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
    • September 21 » The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.
    • December 22 » Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.


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About the surname Willemsma


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