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Personal data Geert de Vries 


Household of Geert de Vries

He is married to Jelske Postma.

They got married on May 8, 1909 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 23 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Trijntje de Vries  1909-1977
  2. Tietje de Vries  1911-1992
  3. Jitske de Vries  1914-1998
  4. Jochum de Vries  1916-1976
  5. Andries de Vries  1918-1918
  6. Andries de Vries  1919-1925
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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1885, Achtkarspelen
  2. Overlijdensregister 1945, Achtkarspelen
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/278358/vries_de
  4. Huwelijksregister 1909, Dantumadeel

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Historical events

Birthday May 24, 1885

  • The temperature on May 24, 1885 was about 11.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
    • March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
    • May 12 » North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
    • June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
    • July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
    • September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.

Day of marriage May 8, 1909

  • The temperature on May 8, 1909 was between 2.2 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (90%). 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 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.
    • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
    • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
    • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
    • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
    • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
    • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Day of death January 24, 1945

  • The temperature on January 24, 1945 was between -9.8 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -4.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
    • May 29 » First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
    • September 8 » The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
    • September 18 » General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
    • November 16 » UNESCO is founded.
    • December 4 » By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
    • December 12 » The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.


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