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Personal data Douwe Hofstra 


Household of Douwe Hofstra

He is married to Agatha Gootjes.

They got married on May 13, 1936 at Amsterdam, he was 33 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday August 23, 1902

  • The temperature on August 23, 1902 was between 7.3 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (22%). 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 year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
    • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
    • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
    • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
    • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
    • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.

Day of death November 8, 1988

  • The temperature on November 8, 1988 was between 2.2 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 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.
    • January 13 » Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
    • May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
    • June 27 » The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
    • July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
    • July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
    • August 8 » The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.


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