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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.
    • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
    • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
    • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
    • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
    • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
    • November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

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.
    • March 1 » Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
    • April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
    • April 23 » Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
    • July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
    • August 24 » The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
    • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

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.
    • March 24 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
    • July 24 » Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
    • August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
    • October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
    • October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
    • November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.


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)

Source: Wikipedia


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