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Personal data Hendrik Pitstra 


Household of Hendrik Pitstra

He is married to Rikstje Veenstra.

They got married on February 25, 1915 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 20 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Pitstra  1915-1987

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Hendrik Pitstra

Jan Pitstra
1866-1926
Imke Bijma
1863-1938

Hendrik Pitstra
1894-1972

1915
Jan Pitstra
1915-1987

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1894, Achtkarspelen
  2. http://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/1466625/pitstra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1915, Achtkarspelen

Historical events

  • The temperature on June 5, 1894 was about 16.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
    • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
    • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
    • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
    • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
    • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
  • The temperature on February 25, 1915 was between -1.8 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
    • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
    • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
    • 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 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
    • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
    • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
  • The temperature on March 12, 1972 was between -4.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
    • March 20 » The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
    • April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
    • April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
    • May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
    • June 9 » Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160million in damage.


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Source: Wikipedia

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