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Personal data Gerrit Langstra 

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Household of Gerrit Langstra

He is married to Sietske Veenstra.

They got married on March 31, 1937 at Leeuwarden (Fr).Source 2

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Sources

  1. Overlijdensregister 1940, Leeuwarden
  2. Huwelijksregister 1937, Leeuwarden

Historical events

Day of death May 11, 1940

  • The temperature on May 11, 1940 was between 5.5 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (54%). 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
    • April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
    • May 7 » World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
    • July 11 » World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
    • August 5 » World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
    • September 9 » George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
    • December 22 » World War II: Himara is captured by the Greek army.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
  • 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
  • 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
  • 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)

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