Family tree Weening » Jelle Bekkema (1917-2000)
Personal data Jelle Bekkema
- He was born on March 29, 1917 in Opende, gem. Grootegast (Gr).Source 1
- He died on December 11, 2000 in -, he was 83 years old.Source 2
- He is buried in Drachten, gem. Smallingerland (Fr).
- A child of Arend Bekkema and Hinke Dam
- This information was last updated on May 17, 2026.
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Birthday March 29, 1917
- The temperature on March 29, 1917 was between 0.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
- March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- May 18 » World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
- August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
- December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
Day of death December 11, 2000
- The temperature on December 11, 2000 was between 9.5 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
- February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
- May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
- June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- September 20 » The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
- September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
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