Family tree Dijkxhoorn » Grace A. Poortinga (1915-1945)

Personal data Grace A. Poortinga 


Household of Grace A. Poortinga

She is married to Henry de Groot.

They got married on August 31, 1938 at Snohomish, WA, USA, she was 22 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grace A. Poortinga

Jacob Ybes Poortinga
1852-1929
Aaltje Goffes Jaarsma
1856-1924
Jan Ypes Korf
1844-1910
Grietje Liekeles Tuinstra
1848-1933

Grace A. Poortinga
1915-1945

1938

Henry de Groot
1908-1963


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Historical events

Birthday November 8, 1915

  • The temperature on November 8, 1915 was between 4.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
    • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
    • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
    • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
    • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
    • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Day of marriage August 31, 1938

  • The temperature on August 31, 1938 was between 6.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
    • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
    • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
    • October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
    • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Day of death December 26, 1945

  • The temperature on December 26, 1945 was between 4.5 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
    • January 23 » World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
    • February 4 » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
    • February 14 » World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
    • April 8 » World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
    • April 20 » World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
    • September 18 » General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.


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