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Personal data Wessel Feenstra 


Household of Wessel Feenstra

He is married to Grietje de Jong.

They got married on May 16, 1940 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 24 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wessel Feenstra

Albert Wybes Veenstra
1821-1905
Klaaske Taekes van der Ploeg
1834-1906
Durk Fokkes Zijlstra
1832-1907
Ykje Johannes Hollema
1833-1896

Wessel Feenstra
1915-1997

1940

Grietje de Jong
1919-2001


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  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/179019/feenstra
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Historical events

Birthday July 4, 1915

  • The temperature on July 4, 1915 was between 13.0 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (64%). 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
    • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
    • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
    • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
    • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
    • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Day of marriage May 16, 1940

  • The temperature on May 16, 1940 was between 5.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
    • June 3 » World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
    • June 3 » World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
    • July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
    • September 9 » Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.
    • September 29 » Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
    • November 20 » World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

Day of death December 10, 1997

  • The temperature on December 10, 1997 was between 10.1 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 18.4 mm of rain during 9.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
    • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
    • May 10 » The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
    • September 3 » Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
    • September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
    • November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
    • December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.


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