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Personal data Geertje Douma 


Household of Geertje Douma

She is married to Louw Beerstra.

They got married on May 4, 1939 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, she was 22 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Geertje Douma

Jitze Gaatzes Douma
1851-1911
Gertje Harmens Veenstra
1855-1908
Hylke Boorsma
1863-1950
Bjetje Westra
1864-1933
Harm Douma
1886-1969

Geertje Douma
1916-1998

1939

Louw Beerstra
1911-1975


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Sources

  1. Bevolkingsregister Dantumadeel
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/196757/douma
  3. Huwelijksregister 1939, Dantumadeel

Historical events

Birthday August 9, 1916

  • The temperature on August 9, 1916 was between 8.9 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • April 10 » The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
    • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
    • November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
    • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
    • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
    • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

Day of marriage May 4, 1939

  • The temperature on May 4, 1939 was between 1.1 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
    • February 5 » Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
    • February 27 » United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.
    • September 1 » General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
    • September 1 » Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
    • September 9 » World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
    • October 14 » World War II: The German submarineU-47 sinks the British battleship HMSRoyal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

Day of death July 26, 1998

  • The temperature on July 26, 1998 was between 8.9 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
    • January 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
    • May 30 » The 6.5 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
    • August 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
    • August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.
    • October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
    • November 19 » Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5million.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1914 » Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and director († 1963)
  • 1914 » Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager († 1990)
  • 1914 » Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator († 2001)
  • 1915 » Mareta West, American astronomer and geologist († 1998)
  • 1918 » Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright († 1966)
  • 1918 » Kermit Beahan, American colonel († 1989)

Source: Wikipedia


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