Family tree Weening » Geertje Postma (1877-1921)
Personal data Geertje Postma
- She was born on October 17, 1877 in Akkerwoude, gem. Dantumadeel (Fr).Source 1
- She died on August 13, 1921 in Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, she was 43 years old.Source 2
- A child of Gooitzen Folkerts Postma and Froukje Pieters Knoop
- This information was last updated on July 13, 2024.
Household of Geertje Postma
She is married to Heine van Assen.
They got married on November 7, 1896 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, she was 19 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Froukje van Assen 1899-1973
- Gooitzen van Assen 1901-1943
- Auke van Assen 1903-1982
- Pieter van Assen 1905-1965
- Lieuwe van Assen 1911-1979
- Gerrit van Assen 1915-1977
- Geert van Assen 1919-1962
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Birthday October 17, 1877
- The temperature on October 17, 1877 was about 7.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
- May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
- June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
Day of marriage November 7, 1896
- The temperature on November 7, 1896 was about -0.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
- May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
- August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
Day of death August 13, 1921
- The temperature on August 13, 1921 was between 7.7 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
- January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
- March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
- September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
- October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
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