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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.
    • May 18 » World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
    • July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
    • October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
    • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
    • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
    • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

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.
    • February 23 » World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
    • March 9 » World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
    • June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
    • July 16 » Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
    • August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
    • November 10 » World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

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.
    • January 3 » United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
    • January 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
    • February 11 » Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
    • July 30 » Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
    • August 28 » An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
    • December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.


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