Genealogy Eummelen, Sep, Schnijderberg, Fontijne, Roggeband » "Willemke" Tjepkema (1915-2005)

Personal data "Willemke" Tjepkema 

  • Nickname is Willemke.
  • She was born on December 26, 1915.
  • She died on May 15, 2005 in Brampton, Ontario (Canada), she was 89 years old.
  • She is buried on May 19, 2005 in Brampton, Ontario (Canada).
  • This information was last updated on June 15, 2011.

Household of "Willemke" Tjepkema

She is married to Cornelis Jan Verkerke.

They got married in the year 1952 at Brampton, Ontario (Canada), she was 36 years old.

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Birthday December 26, 1915

  • The temperature on December 26, 1915 was between 3.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
    • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
    • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
    • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
    • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
    • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.

Day of death May 15, 2005

  • The temperature on May 15, 2005 was between 5.7 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
    • January 8 » The nuclear sub USSSan Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
    • May 31 » Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
    • July 2 » The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
    • September 26 » The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.
    • October 8 » The 7.6 Mw  Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
    • November 22 » Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Day of burial May 19, 2005

  • The temperature on May 19, 2005 was between 5.0 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
    • April 26 » Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
    • August 3 » President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
    • August 17 » The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts.
    • November 30 » John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
    • December 5 » The 6.8 Mw  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
    • December 24 » Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.


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