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Personal data Grietje Veenstra 


Household of Grietje Veenstra

She is married to Reinder Dijkstra.

They got married on May 20, 1916 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, she was 24 years old.Source 2

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grietje Veenstra

Oenze Bordzes Veenstra
1799-1885
Grietje Jans Loonstra
1808-1895
Jan Martens Hoekstra
1817-1872
Bregtje Hendriks Dijker
1828-1886

Grietje Veenstra
1892-1984

1916

Reinder Dijkstra
1889-1944


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Sources

  1. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/446615/veenstra
  2. Huwelijksregister 1916, Kollumerland c.a.

Historical events

Birthday April 26, 1892

  • The temperature on April 26, 1892 was about 8.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
    • May 28 » In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
    • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
    • July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
    • October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
    • December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.

Day of marriage May 20, 1916

  • The temperature on May 20, 1916 was between 3.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
    • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
    • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
    • July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
    • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
    • September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.

Day of death February 29, 1984

  • The temperature on February 29, 1984 was between -2.9 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
    • February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
    • March 6 » In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
    • March 29 » The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
    • April 4 » President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
    • December 19 » The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
  • 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)
  • 1894 » Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician († 1987)
  • 1896 » Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot († 1941)
  • 1896 » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director († 1967)
  • 1897 » Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder († 1967)

Source: Wikipedia


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