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Personal data Antje Merkus 


Household of Antje Merkus

She is married to Douwe Hoekstra.

They got married on October 7, 1943 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), she was 19 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Antje Merkus

Roelof Harmens Merkus
1855-1898
Antje Wybes de Haan
1844-1909
Tjeerd Tiemens Wiersma
1842-1897
Mootske Hut
1844-1892
Harmen Merkus
1882-1958
Aukje Wiersma
1881-1973

Antje Merkus
1924-2022

1943

Douwe Hoekstra
1923-2006


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  2. https://www.online-begraafplaatsen.nl/graf/2015496/3222088/Douwe-Hoekstra-1923-2006
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Historical events

Birthday June 21, 1924

  • The temperature on June 21, 1924 was between 10.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
    • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
    • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
    • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
    • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
    • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
    • October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

Day of marriage October 7, 1943

  • The temperature on October 7, 1943 was between 7.6 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • January 22 » World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
    • August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
    • September 14 » World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
    • October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
    • November 15 » The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
    • November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.


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