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Personal data Wieger Westra 


Household of Wieger Westra

He is married to Trijntje Hanenburg.

They got married on June 17, 1926 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 26 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wieger Westra

Jan Jans Westra
1804-1850
Hendrikje Jans Loonstra
1811-1890
Wieger Taedes Kootstra
1848-1930
Susanna Annes Dijkstra
1849-1897

Wieger Westra
1900-1979

1926

Trijntje Hanenburg
1896-1976


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1900, Achtkarspelen
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/180229/westra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1926, Kollumerland c.a.

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Historical events

Birthday June 14, 1900

  • The temperature on June 14, 1900 was about 19.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
    • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
    • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
    • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
    • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
    • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

Day of marriage June 17, 1926

  • The temperature on June 17, 1926 was between 10.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
    • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
    • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
    • April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
    • May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
    • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
    • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

Day of death October 17, 1979

  • The temperature on October 17, 1979 was between 5.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
    • June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
    • July 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
    • July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
    • October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
    • November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1900 » June Walker, American stage and film actress († 1966)
  • 1900 » Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher († 2003)
  • 1903 » Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician († 1995)
  • 1903 » Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1980)
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Source: Wikipedia


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