Genealogy Harssema » Eltje Sijbrands (Alice) de HAAN (1901-1983)

Personal data Eltje Sijbrands (Alice) de HAAN 


Household of Eltje Sijbrands (Alice) de HAAN

She is married to Henry Klaas SIKKEMA.

They got married on April 22, 1921 at Michigan U.S.A, she was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Gertrude Evelyn SIKKEMA  ± 1928-2012 
  2. (Not public)
  3. (Not public)
  4. (Not public)
  5. (Not public)
  6. (Not public)
  7. Alfred Jay SIKKEMA  1932-2011 


Notes about Eltje Sijbrands (Alice) de HAAN

3C2R from Jan Gerrits Drolinga (1766 - 1812) and Aafke Berends Bouwman (ca 1774 - 1832).
Alice DeHaan was nine years old when she arrived in New York harbor. She threw her wooden shoes, with bananas inside them, out the port hole when they arrived. She did not want to wear wooden shoes in America and did not know how to eat bananas.

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Historical events

Birthday March 28, 1901

  • The temperature on March 28, 1901 was between -5.2 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (27%). 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 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
    • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
    • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
    • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
    • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
    • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

Day of marriage April 22, 1921

  • The temperature on April 22, 1921 was between 1.8 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
    • February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
    • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
    • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
    • September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
    • October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
    • December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

Day of death April 1, 1983

  • The temperature on April 1, 1983 was between 4.6 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
    • July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
    • October 4 » Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
    • October 12 » Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
    • November 26 » Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
    • December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.


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