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Personal data Grietje Zwama 


Household of Grietje Zwama

She is married to Louwe Fokkinga.

They got married on May 11, 1944 at Hoogkerk (Gr), she was 23 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grietje Zwama

Tjeerd Zwama
1867-1957
Jeltje van der Kloet
1869-1935
Pieter Roeters
1863-1946
Grietje Postma
1863-1944
Pieter Zwama
1894-1972

Grietje Zwama
1920-2001

1944

Louwe Fokkinga
1916-1987


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Sources

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  2. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/1998416/zwama
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Historical events

Birthday October 16, 1920

  • The temperature on October 16, 1920 was between 8.6 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
    • January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
    • February 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
    • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
    • September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
    • October 30 » The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
    • November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.

Day of marriage May 11, 1944

  • The temperature on May 11, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • March 10 » Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
    • July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
    • August 1 » World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
    • August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
    • October 15 » World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
    • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.

Day of death December 24, 2001

  • The temperature on December 24, 2001 was between -0.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 9.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
    • January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
    • April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
    • May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
    • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
    • June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
    • September 10 » Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1918 » Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic († 2013)
  • 1918 » Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic († 1990)
  • 1919 » Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author († 2003)
  • 1921 » MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder († 2010)
  • 1921 » Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach († 2013)
  • 1921 » Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer († 2003)

Source: Wikipedia


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