Genealogy Harssema » Richard WIERSEMA (1914-1980)

Personal data Richard WIERSEMA 


Household of Richard WIERSEMA

(1) He is married to Elsie HOOK.

They got married in the year 1941, he was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  2. (Not public)
  3. Mary Eleanor WIERSEMA  1945-1993 


(2) He is married to Helen M. JAMISON.

They got married in the year 1979 at Morrison Whiteside County Illinois U.S.A, he was 64 years old.


Notes about Richard WIERSEMA

7th Cousin from Jelte Popkes (ca 1690 - bef 1747) and Lijsbeth Tjapkes (bef 1685 - ?).

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Historical events

Birthday November 13, 1914

  • The temperature on November 13, 1914 was between 3.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 9.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
    • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
    • August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
    • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
    • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
    • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Day of death June 22, 1980

  • The temperature on June 22, 1980 was between 9.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 21.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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)
  • 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
    • February 17 » First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
    • February 22 » Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
    • March 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
    • April 2 » United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
    • April 3 » US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
    • May 17 » General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.


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