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Personal data Jan "John" Tornga 


Household of Jan "John" Tornga

He is married to Wietske Fongers.

They got married on July 8, 1908 at Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten, he was 28 years old.Source 3


Notes about Jan "John" Tornga

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First Name: Jan
Last Name: Tornga
Ethnicity: Holland, Dutch
Last Place of Residence: Sanwerd
Date of Arrival: Jul 09, 1899
Age at Arrival: 19y Gender: M Marital Status: S
Ship of Travel: Rotterdam
Port of Departure: Rotterdam, Holland
Manifest Line Number: 0019

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Tornga

Jacob Tornga
1804-1853
Aaltje Geerts Ipema
1813-1853
Harm Lukas Iwes Bodde
1805-1886
Matje Jans Horn
1806-1883
Geert Tornga
1839-1924
Knelske Bodde
1845-1916

Jan Tornga
1880-1979

1908

Wietske Fongers
1880-1925


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Adorp 1880
  2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=tornga&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=35408660&df=all&
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Historical events

Birthday March 21, 1880

  • The temperature on March 21, 1880 was about 8.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
    • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
    • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
    • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
    • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
    • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

Day of marriage July 8, 1908

  • The temperature on July 8, 1908 was between 11.5 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
    • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
    • April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
    • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
    • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
    • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
    • November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

Day of death April 25, 1979

  • The temperature on April 25, 1979 was between 2.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
    • March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
    • April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
    • April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
    • June 9 » The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
    • August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.


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