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He is married to Klazien Dijkhuis.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerke Postma

Gerke Geerts Postma
1849-1925
Bontje Sytzes Smeding
1842-1896
Jan Kornelis Zuidersma
1849-1923
Hiske van Ellen
1845-1904
Geert Postma
1886-1964

Gerke Postma
1916-1998


Klazien Dijkhuis
1924-2019


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1916, Kollumerland c.a.

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.
    • February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
    • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
    • August 17 » World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
    • November 5 » The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
    • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
    • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Day of death December 23, 1998

  • The temperature on December 23, 1998 was between 3.8 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
    • March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
    • April 10 » The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
    • May 13 » India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
    • September 14 » Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
    • December 31 » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.


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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