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Personal data Martha Westra 


Household of Martha Westra

She is married to Gaele Couperus.

They got married on May 14, 1938 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, she was 21 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Martha Westra

Bienze Joukes Westra
1857-1931
Grietje Pieters van der Veen
1855-1917
Jan Visser
1863-1936
Renske van Tuinen
1863-1939
Lieuwe Westra
1888-1962

Martha Westra
1916-2009

1938

Gaele Couperus
1908-1987


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Historical events

Birthday September 22, 1916

  • The temperature on September 22, 1916 was between 5.5 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
    • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
    • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
    • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
    • February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
    • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
    • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.

Day of marriage May 14, 1938

  • The temperature on May 14, 1938 was between 8.1 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
    • May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
    • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
    • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
    • October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
    • October 31 » Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.

Day of death January 26, 2009

  • The temperature on January 26, 2009 was between -2.3 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • March 12 » Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
    • April 10 » President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
    • June 30 » Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
    • July 4 » The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
    • August 17 » An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
    • December 17 » MVDanny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.


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