Family tree Weening » Hendrikje Schaafsma (1878-1950)
Personal data Hendrikje Schaafsma
- She was born on March 8, 1878 in Grootegast (Gr).Source 1
- Profession: dienstbode.
- She died on October 2, 1950 in Grootegast (Gr), she was 72 years old.Source 2
- A child of Harmen Johannes Schaafsma and Imke Jans Jongst
- This information was last updated on June 15, 2023.
Household of Hendrikje Schaafsma
She is married to Tjalling Kok.
They got married on May 17, 1902 at Grijpskerk (Gr), she was 24 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Durkje Kok 1903-1998
- Harm Kok 1906-
- Imke Kok 1911-1981
- Jan Kok 1913-1984
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Historical events
Birthday March 8, 1878
- The temperature on March 8, 1878 was about 5.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 37 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
- March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
- December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
Day of marriage May 17, 1902
- The temperature on May 17, 1902 was between 6.9 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
- April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
- October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
- November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
- December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death October 2, 1950
- The temperature on October 2, 1950 was between 9.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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)
- 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 1950: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
- March 12 » The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
- July 4 » Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
- July 24 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
- September 11 » Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38 parallel.
- November 13 » General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
- December 9 » Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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