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Personal data Berend Hofman 


Household of Berend Hofman

He is married to Grietje Douwsma.

They got married on May 26, 1937 at Ezinge (Gr), he was 28 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Berend Hofman

Hendrik Bolt
1840-1927
Willemina van Dijk
1844-1918
Jannes Hofman
1880-1949
Pieterke Bolt
1870-1925

Berend Hofman
1909-1990

1937

Grietje Douwsma
1909-1990


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Groningen 1909
  2. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/2048078/hofman
  3. Huwelijksregister Ezinge 1937

Historical events

Birthday May 20, 1909

  • The temperature on May 20, 1909 was between 5.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
    • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
    • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
    • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
    • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
    • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

Day of marriage May 26, 1937

  • The temperature on May 26, 1937 was between 13.8 °C and 28.8 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
    • April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
    • April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
    • June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
    • August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
    • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.

Day of death May 15, 1990

  • The temperature on May 15, 1990 was between 4.6 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
    • March 18 » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
    • April 7 » A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
    • July 30 » Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
    • August 23 » Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
    • September 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
    • September 30 » The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.


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