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Personal data Douwe Jan Sikkema 

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Household of Douwe Jan Sikkema

He is married to Janke Elzinga.

They got married on May 10, 1941 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 26 years old.Source 2

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Douwe Jan Sikkema

Franciscus Jitzes Sikkema
1848-1916
Grietje Annes Annema
1838-1928
Folkert Lykeles Boonstra
1856-1942
Johanna Hibma
1859-1941
Jitze Sikkema
1881-1965

Douwe Jan Sikkema
1915-????

1941

Janke Elzinga
1911-????


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Sources

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  2. Huwelijksregister 1941, Dantumadeel

Historical events

Birthday January 30, 1915

  • The temperature on January 30, 1915 was between -4.4 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
    • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
    • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
    • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
    • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Day of marriage May 10, 1941

  • The temperature on May 10, 1941 was between 2.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
    • March 1 » World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
    • May 10 » World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
    • July 7 » The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
    • August 24 » Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
    • December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.


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