Genealogy Harssema » Benjamin Meiles TAMMINGA (1917-2011)

Personal data Benjamin Meiles TAMMINGA 


Household of Benjamin Meiles TAMMINGA

He is married to Sjoukje STEEN.

They got married


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Notes about Benjamin Meiles TAMMINGA

16C1R from Atte Harcoz Siccama (ca 1360 - bef 1440).
19th Cousin from Yo Siccama (ca 1298 - ?).

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Birthday December 30, 1917

  • The temperature on December 30, 1917 was between -1.4 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
    • March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
    • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
    • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
    • June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
    • October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".

Day of death January 8, 2011

  • The temperature on January 8, 2011 was between 4.9 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • May 21 » Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
    • July 22 » Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
    • August 23 » Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
    • September 12 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
    • September 19 » Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader with 602.
    • November 8 » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1913 » Elyne Mitchell, Australian author († 2002)
  • 1913 » Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer († 1996)
  • 1914 » Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality, and beauty pageant host († 1992)
  • 1917 » Seymour Melman, American engineer and author († 2004)
  • 1919 » David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor († 2015)
  • 1919 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer († 1997)

Source: Wikipedia


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