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Personal data Foppe Veenstra 


Household of Foppe Veenstra

He is married to Hiske Drost.

They got married on June 21, 1945 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 29 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Foppe Veenstra

Jan Veenstra
1835-1912
Grietje Hoogstra
1836-1908
Fokke Holtrop
1850-1910
Riemke Jager
1854-1885

Foppe Veenstra
1915-1989

1945

Hiske Drost
1917-2008


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1915
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/1989784/veenstra
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Historical events

Birthday December 7, 1915

  • The temperature on December 7, 1915 was between 7.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
    • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
    • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
    • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
    • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
    • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Day of marriage June 21, 1945

  • The temperature on June 21, 1945 was between 15.0 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
    • April 12 » World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reached Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
    • April 15 » Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
    • May 1 » World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
    • May 2 » World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
    • May 5 » World War II: Dönitz gives Löhr permission to seek an armistice with the Western Allies to preserve a communist free Austria and recognising first, from a German standpoint, the separation of Austria from Germany undoing the Anschluss.
    • September 8 » The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

Day of death January 28, 1989

  • The temperature on January 28, 1989 was between 0.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
    • March 19 » The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in 1979.
    • April 26 » People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
    • August 8 » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
    • November 13 » Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
    • December 1 » Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
    • December 2 » The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, ending the over two-decade-long communist insurgency in Malaysia.


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