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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.

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.
    • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
    • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
    • February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
    • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
    • June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
    • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

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).
    • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
    • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
    • August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
    • September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
    • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

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.
    • February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
    • June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
    • June 18 » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
    • June 20 » ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
    • October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
    • November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.


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)
  • 1904 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist († 1971)

Source: Wikipedia


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