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Personal data Jans "John" Tjapkes 


Household of Jans "John" Tjapkes

He is married to Henderika Drenth.

They got married on December 22, 1894 at Adorp (Gr), he was 27 years old.Source 3

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Ezinge 1867
  2. https://nl.findagrave.com/memorial/85254877/jans_pieters-tjapkes
  3. Huwelijksregister Adorp 1894

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Historical events

Birthday January 11, 1867

  • The temperature on January 11, 1867 was about 3.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
    • March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
    • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
    • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
    • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
    • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

Day of death August 31, 1954

  • The temperature on August 31, 1954 was between 12.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
    • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
    • October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
    • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
    • November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
    • November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.


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