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Personal data Harmen de Vries 


Household of Harmen de Vries

He is married to Froukje Poelstra.

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1916, Leeuwarden
  2. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/1992589/vries_de

Historical events

Birthday December 20, 1916

  • The temperature on December 20, 1916 was between -1.7 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
    • April 10 » The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
    • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
    • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
    • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
    • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
    • September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.

Day of death July 23, 2006

  • The temperature on July 23, 2006 was between 16.5 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 22.4 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
    • May 17 » The aircraft carrier USSOriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
    • May 21 » The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
    • August 4 » A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
    • September 17 » Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
    • December 28 » War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
    • December 29 » The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1914 » Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician († 2013)
  • 1915 » Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet († 1995)
  • 1916 » Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist († 2010)
  • 1917 » Audrey Totter, American actress († 2013)
  • 1917 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author († 1997)
  • 1917 » David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher († 1992)

Source: Wikipedia


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