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Personal data Auke Meetsma 


Household of Auke Meetsma

He is married to Antje de Roos.

They got married on July 22, 1916 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 39 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Grietje Meetsma  1917-1984
  2. Egbert Meetsma  1918-1983
  3. Wietze Meetsma  1920-2001
  4. Rinze Meetsma  1923-1954

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1876, Achtkarspelen
  2. Overlijdensregister 1955, Leeuwarden
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/298550/meetsma
  4. Huwelijksregister 1916, Achtkarspelen

Historical events

Birthday November 7, 1876

  • The temperature on November 7, 1876 was about 2.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
    • March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
    • April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
    • June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
    • June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
    • August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.

Day of marriage July 22, 1916

  • The temperature on July 22, 1916 was between 11.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • April 24 » Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
    • April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
    • June 10 » The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
    • September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
    • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
    • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

Day of death August 4, 1955

  • The temperature on August 4, 1955 was between 10.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
    • June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
    • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
    • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
    • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
    • September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
    • November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.


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