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Personal data Gerben Leegsma 


Household of Gerben Leegsma

He is married to Doetje Veenstra.

They got married on May 29, 1941 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 26 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerben Leegsma

Willem Rinderts Leegsma
1850-1930
Doetje Jakobs Iestra
1858-1946
Harm Alzerda
1852-1935
Antje Wybes Dijkstra
1857-1935

Gerben Leegsma
1915-1998

1941

Doetje Veenstra
1914-2006


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Historical events

Birthday April 6, 1915

  • The temperature on April 6, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (38%). 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
    • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
    • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
    • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
    • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
    • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

Day of marriage May 29, 1941

  • The temperature on May 29, 1941 was between 9.8 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • May 10 » World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
    • June 2 » World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.
    • June 23 » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
    • September 27 » The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
    • November 12 » World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12°C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
    • December 8 » World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)

Day of death May 7, 1998

  • The temperature on May 7, 1998 was between 10.0 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 4 » A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
    • March 2 » Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
    • March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
    • September 2 » The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
    • November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
    • December 11 » Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.


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