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Personal data Gerrit Kootstra 


Household of Gerrit Kootstra

He is married to Elizabeth Schievink.

They got married on May 9, 1931 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 24 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Kootstra

Gerrit Taedes Kootstra
1843-1889
Hendrikje Piebes Kempenaar
1848-1932
Bauke Dirks Weistra
1848-1898
Maaike Johannes Postma
1851-1929

Gerrit Kootstra
1907-1991

1931

Elizabeth Schievink
1911-1989


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1907, Achtkarspelen
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/266967/kootstra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1931, Achtkarspelen

Historical events

Birthday April 21, 1907

  • The temperature on April 21, 1907 was between 3.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
    • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
    • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
    • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
    • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
    • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
    • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

Day of marriage May 9, 1931

  • The temperature on May 9, 1931 was between 5.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
    • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
    • March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
    • March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
    • May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
    • November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
    • November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.

Day of death April 20, 1991

  • The temperature on April 20, 1991 was between -3.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
    • March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
    • May 28 » The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
    • August 8 » The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
    • August 19 » Crown Heights riot begins.
    • August 19 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
    • December 1 » Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.


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