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On December 18, 1919, the 63 years old farmhand Jacob ZELVIUS together with his 41 years old, unmarried daughter Reintje ZELVIUS, without profession in New York, by the S.S. Rotterdam, coming from the Dutch port of Rotterdam, with their acquaintance Jan BOUMAN, RX6 Kalamazoo, MI, as destination and their son/brother Gerrit ZELVIUS in Roodeschool, Groningen, as Dutch address. Father Jacob was not able to read or write, like his daughter Reintje did; he was 5 feet 7 tall, with brown hairsand blue eyes; his daughter Reintje was 5 feet 6, and also had brown hairs and blue eyes.
[*Note 1: Her Uithuizermeeden birth certificate no. 115 records:
Reintje [*Zelvius], born on 20 October 1877, in the evening at 8 oclock, in Oldenzijl, [*Uithuizermeeden], as daughter of the 23 years old day laborer Jacob Zelvius, living in Oldenzijl, and his wife Trijntje van Zanten, without profession, married people, living in Oldenzijl.
This birth was notified by the father Jacob Zelvius, with the witnesses Jan Andries Dik, a 67 years old rural policeman in Oldenzijl and Johannes Offringa, a 28 years old architect in Uithuizermeeden.

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    Birthday October 20, 1877

    • The temperature on October 20, 1877 was about 6.2 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
    • 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 1877: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
      • January 8 » Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
      • March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
      • May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
      • July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
      • September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.

    Day of death March 13, 1959

    • The temperature on March 13, 1959 was between -1.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
      • February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
      • February 17 » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
      • June 9 » The USSGeorge Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
      • July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
      • July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
      • July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
    

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