Family tree Oosterhaven » Jan van der Gaast (1917-2000)

Personal data Jan van der Gaast 

  • He was born on July 20, 1917 in Lemsterland.
    Geboorteakte Lemsterland, 1900
    Aangiftedatum 9 juni 1900, akte nr. 86
    Jan van der Gaast, geboren 9 juni 1900
    Zoon van Jelle van der Gaast en Lamkjen Bakker

    Is dus niet deze Jan!!
  • He died on January 30, 2000 in Kampen, he was 82 years old.
  • This information was last updated on January 26, 2009.

Household of Jan van der Gaast

He is married to Rigtje Oosterhaven.

They got married on September 25, 1951, he was 34 years old.

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Historical events

  • The temperature on July 20, 1917 was between 10.0 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
    • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
    • July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
    • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
    • November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
    • November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
  • The temperature on January 30, 2000 was between 7.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
    • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
    • June 16 » The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
    • September 10 » Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
    • October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
    • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
    • December 19 » The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.


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