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Personal data Jan Beerstra 


Household of Jan Beerstra

He is married to Geeske Dijkstra.

They got married on May 29, 1947 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 32 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Beerstra

Louw Durks Beerstra
1853-1942
Lutske Sytzes van der Meer
1856-1928
Durk Beerstra
1884-1972
Menke Bouma
1887-1923

Jan Beerstra
1914-1970

1947

Geeske Dijkstra
1923-1974


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1914, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/81901/beerstra
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Historical events

Birthday June 6, 1914

  • The temperature on June 6, 1914 was between 3.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (28%). 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
    • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
    • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
    • November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
    • November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
    • December 15 » World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.

Day of marriage May 29, 1947

  • The temperature on May 29, 1947 was between 10.4 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
    • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
    • August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
    • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
    • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
    • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Day of death January 10, 1970

  • The temperature on January 10, 1970 was between 0.9 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
    • July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
    • October 26 » Muhammad Ali boxes for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus due to draft evasion.
    • November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
    • November 10 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
    • November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
    • November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.


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