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Personal data Jan Merkus 


Household of Jan Merkus

He is married to Grietje Talma.

They got married on May 19, 1934 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 25 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Merkus

Ymke Jans Merkus
1845-1932
Eelkje Rinzes Huizenga
1848-1921
Berend Johannes van der Veer
1850-1924
Dirkje Jans Heikamp
1855-1933
Rinse Merkus
1874-1949

Jan Merkus
1908-1983

1934

Grietje Talma
1909-1982


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1908, Achtkarspelen
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/278227/merkus
  3. Huwelijksregister 1934, Achtkarspelen

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Historical events

Birthday August 25, 1908

  • The temperature on August 25, 1908 was between 10.3 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
    • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
    • October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
    • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
    • November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

Day of marriage May 19, 1934

  • The temperature on May 19, 1934 was between 2.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
    • January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
    • April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
    • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
    • May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
    • August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
    • October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.

Day of death December 5, 1983

  • The temperature on December 5, 1983 was between 0.5 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • February 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
    • April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
    • June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
    • September 23 » Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
    • October 12 » Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
    • November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.


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