Family tree Klavers » Gertude Folkersma (1904-1995)
Personal data Gertude Folkersma
- She was born on August 13, 1904 in Apeldoorn, Gelderland.Source 1
- Fact: (vermelding) Bloedverwantschap met Jordi en Quinten Klavers in %: 0,0021.
- She died on February 9, 1995 in Rudyard, Chippewa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten, she was 90 years old.Source 1
- A child of Jakob Folkersma and Grietje Anna Winkel
- This information was last updated on March 2, 2024.
Household of Gertude Folkersma
She is married to George Samuel DeWitt.
They got married on June 4, 1924 at Rudyard, Chippewa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten, she was 19 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- George Edwin DeWitt 1929-2018
- Phyllis DeWitt ± 1934-< 2024
- Ronald Allen DeWitt 1943-1943
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Historical events
Birthday August 13, 1904
- The temperature on August 13, 1904 was between 6.1 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
- February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
- August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
- November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
- December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of marriage June 4, 1924
- The temperature on June 4, 1924 was between 3.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
- February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
- June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
- December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
Day of death February 9, 1995
- The temperature on February 9, 1995 was between -1.6 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
- June 5 » The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
- July 9 » The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
- July 18 » On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
- October 30 » Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
- November 13 » Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
- November 30 » Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
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- 1998 » Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
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Joop Klavers, "Family tree Klavers", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom_klavers/I488346.php : accessed February 6, 2026), "Gertude Folkersma (1904-1995)".