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Personal data Gjalt Zijlstra 


Household of Gjalt Zijlstra

He is married to Akke Bouma.

They got married on May 14, 1914 at Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 29 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Pieter Zijlstra  1915-1969
  2. (Not public)

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1884, Tietjerksteradeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1962, Dokkum
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/106992/zijlstra
  4. Huwelijksregister 1914, Tietjerksteradeel

Historical events

Birthday October 25, 1884

  • The temperature on October 25, 1884 was about 8.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
    • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
    • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
    • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
    • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
    • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.

Day of marriage May 14, 1914

  • The temperature on May 14, 1914 was between 8.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
    • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
    • September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
    • October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
    • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Day of death December 18, 1962

  • The temperature on December 18, 1962 was between 1.3 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
    • May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
    • September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
    • September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
    • October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
    • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
    • December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia

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