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Household of Gerrit Veenstra

He is married to Fokje Hoekstra.

They got married on January 22, 1944 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 28 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Veenstra

Tjeerd Jans Veenstra
1856-1937
Hiltje Oedzes Bos
1847-1930
Gerrit van der Heide
1865-1947
Freerkje Seyes Landheer
1859-1930
Jan Veenstra
1889-????

Gerrit Veenstra
1916-1974

1944

Fokje Hoekstra
1918-2002


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Historical events

Birthday January 19, 1916

  • The temperature on January 19, 1916 was between 6.9 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
    • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
    • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
    • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
    • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
    • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

Day of marriage January 22, 1944

  • The temperature on January 22, 1944 was between 5.3 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • January 29 » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
    • March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
    • August 10 » World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
    • August 23 » World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
    • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
    • December 17 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.

Day of death December 13, 1974

  • The temperature on December 13, 1974 was between -0.1 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
    • February 4 » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
    • April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
    • May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
    • July 26 » Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
    • August 4 » A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
    • November 24 » Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.


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