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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 13 » The 6.7 Mw  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
    • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
    • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
    • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

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.
    • February 4 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
    • February 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
    • 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.
    • July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
    • December 1 » In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.


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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