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Personal data Jan Hiemstra 


Household of Jan Hiemstra

He is married to Jantje Jongsma.

They got married on May 7, 1936 at Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 22 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Hiemstra

Jan Berends Hiemstra
1860-1947
Martje Martens Pekelsma
1858-1940
Egbert Rinzes Kooistra
1867-1946
Trijntje Pieters Zandstra
1866-1932

Jan Hiemstra
1913-1978

1936

Jantje Jongsma
1912-2005


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1914, Achtkarspelen
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/345153/hiemstra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1936, Menaldumadeel

Historical events

Birthday December 31, 1913

  • The temperature on December 31, 1913 was between -1.2 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
    • February 2 » Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
    • March 18 » King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
    • October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
    • December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
    • December 24 » The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire".

Day of marriage May 7, 1936

  • The temperature on May 7, 1936 was between 10.8 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
    • February 29 » February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
    • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
    • April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
    • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
    • August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
    • December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Day of death December 17, 1978

  • The temperature on December 17, 1978 was between -4.6 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
    • February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
    • May 1 » Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
    • June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
    • July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
    • December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
    • December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1910 » Enrique Maier, Spanish tennis player († 1981)
  • 1911 » Dal Stivens, Australian soldier and author († 1997)
  • 1912 » John Frost, Indian-English general († 1993)
  • 1914 » Mary Logan Reddick, American neuroembryologist († 1966)
  • 1915 » Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet († 1996)

Source: Wikipedia


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