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Personal data Elisabeth Postma 

  • She was born on December 3, 1910 in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
  • Profession: confectie-naaister.
  • She died on August 17, 1998 in -, she was 87 years old.Source 2
  • She is buried in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland.
  • A child of Bauke Postma and Elisabeth Bos
  • This information was last updated on December 19, 2025.

Household of Elisabeth Postma

She is married to Folkert Zwaagstra.

They got married on May 19, 1949 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), she was 38 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Elisabeth Postma

Thomas Jacobs Postma
1845-1923
Jelske Baukes van der Pruik
1843-1921
Arjen Beerts Bos
1832-1908
Ytje Dirks Lourens
1845-1909
Bauke Postma
1876-1947
Elisabeth Bos
1877-1971

Elisabeth Postma
1910-1998

1949

Folkert Zwaagstra
1911-1995


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1910, Dantumadeel
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/195443/postma
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Historical events

Birthday December 3, 1910

  • The temperature on December 3, 1910 was between 0.9 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
    • April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
    • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
    • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
    • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
    • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
    • November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).

Day of marriage May 19, 1949

  • The temperature on May 19, 1949 was between 4.5 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
    • January 1 » United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
    • March 1 » Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
    • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
    • August 10 » An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.
    • September 4 » The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
    • December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

Day of death August 17, 1998

  • The temperature on August 17, 1998 was between 11.3 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
    • February 3 » Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
    • March 1 » Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
    • July 17 » A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
    • August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
    • October 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1902 » Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain and pilot († 1976)
  • 1904 » Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player († 1976)
  • 1905 » Les Ames, English cricketer († 1990)
  • 1907 » Connee Boswell, American jazz singer († 1976)
  • 1911 » Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic († 1979)
  • 1914 » Irving Fine, American composer and academic († 1962)

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