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Household of Sjoerd de Wit

He is married to Aukje Laanstra.

They got married on September 10, 1937 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 22 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Sjoerd de Wit

Sjoerd de Wit
1863-1921
Hiske Scholte
1867-1954
Haye van der Velde
1867-1957
Johanna Dijkstra
1868-1941
Albert de Wit
1889-1967

Sjoerd de Wit
1915-1999

1937

Aukje Laanstra
1917-1951


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1915
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/304154/wit_de
  3. Huwelijksregister Grootegast 1937

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Historical events

Birthday August 7, 1915

  • The temperature on August 7, 1915 was between 14.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (55%). 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 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 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
    • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
    • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
    • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.

Day of marriage September 10, 1937

  • The temperature on September 10, 1937 was between 5.2 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 11.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
    • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
    • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
    • April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
    • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
    • November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
    • December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Day of death August 23, 1999

  • The temperature on August 23, 1999 was between 6.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
    • March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
    • April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
    • May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
    • June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    • November 9 » TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
    • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1913 » George Van Eps, American guitarist († 1998)
  • 1916 » Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer († 2008)
  • 1918 » C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator († 1985)
  • 1918 » Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author († 2007)

Source: Wikipedia


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