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Personal data Harmke Postma
- She was born on January 6, 1896 in Sebaldeburen, gem. Grootegast (Gr).Source 1
- Profession: dienstmeid.
- She died on March 27, 1975 in -, she was 79 years old.Source 2
- She is buried in Lutjegast, gem. Grootegast (Gr).
- A child of Roel Postma and Geertje Oudman
- This information was last updated on June 12, 2023.
Household of Harmke Postma
She is married to Alle van der Vaart.
They got married on November 22, 1917 at Grootegast (Gr), she was 21 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Anke van der Vaart 1918-1998
- Roelf van der Vaart 1919-2013
- Engbert van der Vaart 1921-2010
- Rienk van der Vaart 1922-2005
- Dirk van der Vaart 1924-1999
- Geertje van der Vaart 1925-2019
- Karst van der Vaart ± 1927-1931
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Sources
Geboorteregister Grootegast 1896
https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/33251/postma
Huwelijksregister Grootegast 1917
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Birthday January 6, 1896
- The temperature on January 6, 1896 was about 0.3 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
- February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
- February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
- March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
Day of marriage November 22, 1917
- The temperature on November 22, 1917 was between 2.5 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 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 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
- 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 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
- October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
- December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
Day of death March 27, 1975
- The temperature on March 27, 1975 was between 0.2 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 10.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
- March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- June 20 » The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
- September 8 » Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
- September 16 » Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
- October 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- November 14 » With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
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