Family tree Jacobs » Gerrit Drost (1929-2001)
Personal data Gerrit Drost
- He was born on January 18, 1929 in Wormerveer.
- He died on March 20, 2001 in Nijmegen, he was 72 years old.
- A child of Gerrit Drost and Johanna van den Anker
- This information was last updated on June 21, 2013.
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Historical events
Birthday January 18, 1929
- The temperature on January 18, 1929 was between -11.1 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 0.6 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
- January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
- January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
- June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
- December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
Day of death March 20, 2001
- The temperature on March 20, 2001 was between -3.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
- January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
- June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
- September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
- December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
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Michael Jacobs, "Family tree Jacobs", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-michael-jacobs/I14564.php : accessed May 10, 2025), "Gerrit Drost (1929-2001)".