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Personal data Romkje Bits 


Household of Romkje Bits

She is married to Jan Geerts Hoekstra.

They got married on May 19, 1921, she was 25 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Sietske Hoekstra  1922-1969
  3. Johannes Hoekstra  1924-2005
  4. (Not public)
  5. Jacob Hoekstra  1930-1972
  6. Tjietse Hoekstra  1934-1972

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Historical events

Birthday December 19, 1895

  • The temperature on December 19, 1895 was about 0.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
    • January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
    • March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
    • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
    • November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
    • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Day of marriage May 19, 1921

  • The temperature on May 19, 1921 was between 7.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
    • March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
    • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
    • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
    • October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
    • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
    • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

Day of death April 10, 1956

  • The temperature on April 10, 1956 was between 4.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
    • March 9 » Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
    • April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
    • May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
    • June 20 » A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
    • October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
    • November 3 » Suez Crisis: The Khan Yunis killings by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians.


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