Genealogy Harssema » Meindert WIERSMA (1882-1944)

Personal data Meindert WIERSMA 


Household of Meindert WIERSMA

He is married to Jacobje SMIDS.

They got married on May 19, 1917 at Kollumerland c.a. Friesland Netherlands, he was 34 years old.


Notes about Meindert WIERSMA

5C3R from Minne Heertjes (1680 - ?) and Dieuwerke Repkes Froma.
6C3R from Lieuwe Eltzes Siccama (1646 - bef 1698) and Rinskje Rinses (ca 1650 - aft 1712).

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Historical events

Birthday November 16, 1882

  • The temperature on November 16, 1882 was about 1.5 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
    • June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
    • June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
    • July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
    • July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
    • September 5 » The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

Day of marriage May 19, 1917

  • The temperature on May 19, 1917 was between 11.4 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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.
    • March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
    • May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
    • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
    • October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
    • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
    • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Day of death May 28, 1944

  • The temperature on May 28, 1944 was between 12.2 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • April 10 » Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
    • August 19 » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
    • September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
    • October 20 » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands.
    • November 24 » World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
    • December 18 » World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.


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