Family tree Root, Brinksma, Van Schoten en Molen » Guurtje Root (1860-1938)
Personal data Guurtje Root
- She was born in the year 1860 in Zaandam.
- She died on April 17, 1938 in Zaandam, she was 78 years old.
- A child of Albert Root and Aaltje Pet
- This information was last updated on March 19, 2011.
Household of Guurtje Root
She is married to Maarten Kerkhoven.
They got married on January 29, 1882 at Koog aan de Zaan, she was 22 years old.
Child(ren):
- N.n. Kerkhoven ± 1882-1883
- Grietje Kerkhoven ± 1883-1884
- Gerrit Kerkhoven 1884-1948
- Albert Kerkhoven 1892-????
- Klaas Kerkhoven 1892-????
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Historical events
Day of marriage January 29, 1882
- The temperature on January 29, 1882 was about 2.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
- June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- September 5 » The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
- October 16 » The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Day of death April 17, 1938
- The temperature on April 17, 1938 was between -0.6 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
- March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
- June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
- June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
- July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
- September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
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- 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
- 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
- 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
- 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1944 » Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (b. 1893)
- 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)
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