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Personal data Fokke Postma 


Household of Fokke Postma

He is married to Aafke de Vries.

They got married on May 4, 1935 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 21 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Fokke Postma

Wybe Rinzes Postma
1852-1918
Tjitske Geerts Postma
1853-????
Fokke Egberts Veenstra
1845-1892
Sytske Hendriks Hiemstra
1857-1939
Rinze Postma
1878-1962

Fokke Postma
1914-1987

1935

Aafke de Vries
1912-1998


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1914, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/195895/postma
  3. Huwelijksregister 1935, Kollumerland c.a.

Historical events

Birthday January 26, 1914

  • The temperature on January 26, 1914 was between 0.1 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
    • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
    • July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
    • August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
    • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
    • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.

Day of marriage May 4, 1935

  • The temperature on May 4, 1935 was between 5.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
    • January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
    • April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
    • April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
    • July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
    • November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
    • December 17 » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.

Day of death December 18, 1987

  • The temperature on December 18, 1987 was between 10.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
    • April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
    • June 12 » Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
    • June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
    • August 31 » Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
    • September 13 » Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
    • November 15 » In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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