Family tree Weening » Grietje Westra (1896-1905)
Personal data Grietje Westra
- She was born on November 18, 1896 in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
- She died on August 12, 1905 in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, she was 8 years old.Source 2
- She is buried in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 3
- A child of Wybe Westra and Jeltje Alberts Visser
- This information was last updated on February 11, 2022.
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Sources
Geboorteregister 1896, Dantumadeel
Overlijdensregister 1905, Dantumadeel
https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/196707/westra
Historical events
Birthday November 18, 1896
- The temperature on November 18, 1896 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
- March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
- July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death August 12, 1905
- The temperature on August 12, 1905 was between 8.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
- March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
- June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
- June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
- October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
- November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
- November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
Same birth/death day
- 1891 » Gio Ponti, Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher.(† 1979)
- 1897 » Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
- 1899 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor († 1985)
- 1899 » Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher and civil rights activist († 1981)
- 1901 » George Gallup, American statistician and academic († 1984)
- 1901 » V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
- 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
- 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
- 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
- 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
- 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
- 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
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