Family tree Griffioen Jellema Friese Adel » Jelle Taekes Spoelstra (1892-1978)
Personal data Jelle Taekes Spoelstra
- He was born on April 23, 1892 in Birdaard, Dantumadeel, Friesland.
- He died on October 13, 1978 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, he was 86 years old.
- A child of Taeke Jelles Spoelstra and Froukje Jacobs van der Werf
- This information was last updated on October 28, 2012.
Household of Jelle Taekes Spoelstra
He is married to Janna Lieuwes Kramer.
They got married on May 12, 1917 at Smallingerland, Friesland, he was 25 years old.
Child(ren):
- Taeke Jelles Spoelstra 1918-1993
- Jacobus Jelles Spoelstra 1923-1988
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Birthday April 23, 1892
- The temperature on April 23, 1892 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
- June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
- August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
- December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.
Day of marriage May 12, 1917
- The temperature on May 12, 1917 was between 10.1 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
- January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
- March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
- December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
Day of death October 13, 1978
- The temperature on October 13, 1978 was between 6.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
- January 31 » The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
- March 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
- May 25 » The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
- July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
- August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
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