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Personal data Ruurd Span 


Household of Ruurd Span

He is married to Hitje Pietersma.

They got married on January 10, 1914 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 40 years old.Source 3

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1873, Leeuwarderadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1949, Lemsterland
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Historical events

Birthday February 13, 1873

  • The temperature on February 13, 1873 was about 3.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
  • In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
    • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
    • August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
    • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
    • September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
    • November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

Day of death March 13, 1949

  • The temperature on March 13, 1949 was between 4.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
    • March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
    • March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
    • May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
    • May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
    • June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
    • October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1867 » Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player († 1905)
  • 1870 » Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer († 1938)
  • 1873 » Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer († 1938)
  • 1876 » Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player and umpire († 1933)
  • 1879 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist († 1949)
  • 1880 » Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher († 1955)

Source: Wikipedia


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