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Personal data Grietje Wierda 


Household of Grietje Wierda

She is married to Jan Pitstra.

They got married on May 20, 1936 at Leeuwarden (Fr), she was 20 years old.Source 3

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1915, Leeuwarden
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/2263402/wierda
  3. (Not public)

Historical events

Birthday October 20, 1915

  • The temperature on October 20, 1915 was between 2.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
    • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
    • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
    • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
    • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
    • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
    • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Day of death September 5, 1997

  • The temperature on September 5, 1997 was between 11.1 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 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 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.
    • January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
    • May 27 » The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
    • August 7 » Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
    • October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
    • November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
    • December 29 » Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1914 » Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer († 2006)
  • 1917 » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1973)
  • 1917 » Stéphane Hessel, German-French activist and diplomat († 2013)
  • 1918 » Martin Drewes, German soldier and pilot († 2013)

Source: Wikipedia


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