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Personal data Ruurd Meerenga 


Household of Ruurd Meerenga

He is married to Anna Keekstra.

They got married on May 21, 1942 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 25 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Ruurd Meerenga

Hendrik Meerenga
1851-1934
Tjitske Johannes Hoekstra
1849-1931
Ruurd Pieters Henstra
1853-1922
Jelske Dirks de Vries
1852-1918

Ruurd Meerenga
1917-1990

1942

Anna Keekstra
1920-2010


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Sources

  1. Bevolkingsregister Dantumadeel
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/195355/meerenga
  3. (Not public)

Historical events

Birthday March 17, 1917

  • The temperature on March 17, 1917 was between 3.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
    • February 3 » First World War: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
    • August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
    • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
    • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Day of marriage May 21, 1942

  • The temperature on May 21, 1942 was between 8.0 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
    • May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
    • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
    • October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
    • October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
    • December 4 » World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.

Day of death August 14, 1990

  • The temperature on August 14, 1990 was between 12.9 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
    • July 2 » In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
    • July 6 » The Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded.
    • August 13 » A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwan's naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
    • November 15 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
    • November 17 » Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
    • December 11 » Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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