Descendants Hemerik-Broekhuizen-Huner-Koper-Barink » Jan Zeilstra (1882-1958)

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Household of Jan Zeilstra

He is married to Maria Willemina Dijkxhoorn.

They got married on August 28, 1912 at Leiden, he was 30 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Bauke Zeilstra  1913-1921
  2. Cornelis Zeilstra  1914-1915

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  • The temperature on August 10, 1882 was about 14.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 4 » Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
    • May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
    • July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
    • September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
    • September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
    • October 16 » The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
  • The temperature on August 28, 1912 was between 7.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
    • April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
    • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
    • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
    • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
    • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
  • The temperature on October 6, 1958 was between 5.5 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
    • April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
    • June 1 » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
    • August 17 » Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
    • August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
    • August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
    • September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.

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