Dijkstra en Leistra aanverwanten » Douwe Symen Algra (1900-1975)

Personal data Douwe Symen Algra 

  • The name is of type 'name given at or near birth'
  • He was born on August 28, 1900 in Tietjerksteradeel.
  • He died on May 19, 1975, he was 74 years old.
  • This information was last updated on May 3, 2021.

Household of Douwe Symen Algra

He is married to jantje Wiebes Boonstra.

They got married on April 19, 1923, he was 22 years old.


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Birthday August 28, 1900

  • The temperature on August 28, 1900 was about 12.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
    • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
    • February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
    • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
    • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
    • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

Day of death May 19, 1975

  • The temperature on May 19, 1975 was between 7.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
    • January 2 » At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
    • June 29 » Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
    • September 16 » Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
    • September 16 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
    • October 1 » Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
    • October 14 » An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1896 » Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic († 1982)
  • 1898 » Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster († 1983)
  • 1899 » Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet († 1951)
  • 1899 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer († 1978)
  • 1899 » James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer († 1976)
  • 1903 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author († 1990)

Source: Wikipedia


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