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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.
    • July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
    • July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
    • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
    • August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
    • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
    • December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.

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.
    • February 3 » The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
    • April 20 » The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
    • August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
    • August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
    • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
    • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

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 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
    • January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
    • June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
    • July 28 » Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles.
    • August 15 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
    • October 31 » Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.


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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