Family tree Diverse » Jan Britstra (1907-1976)
Personal data Jan Britstra
- He was born on June 25, 1907 in Naarden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Profession: starting 1930 winkelier.
- He died on August 6, 1976 in Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands, he was 69 years old.
- A child of Geert Britstra and Heintje Bakker
- This information was last updated on November 15, 2018.
Household of Jan Britstra
He is married to Neeltje de Vries.
They got married on April 23, 1930 at Naarden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, he was 22 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- Jan Britstra 1948-2015
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Birthday June 25, 1907
- The temperature on June 25, 1907 was between 9.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 14.2 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
- January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
- January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
- April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
- July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
- July 29 » Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
- December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
Day of marriage April 23, 1930
- The temperature on April 23, 1930 was between 1.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
- February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
- March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
- April 2 » After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
- April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
- June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- November 3 » Getúlio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
Day of death August 6, 1976
- The temperature on August 6, 1976 was between 11.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
- June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- July 20 » The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
- December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.
Same birth/death day
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- 1903 » George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic († 1950)
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- 1907 » J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
- 1908 » Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic († 2000)
- 1911 » William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
- 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
- 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
- 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
- 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
- 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
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