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Personal data Grietje Jans Veenstra 


Household of Grietje Jans Veenstra

She is married to Elze Eelkes Leegstra.

They got married on May 25, 1907 at Kollum, she was 18 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday October 8, 1888

  • The temperature on October 8, 1888 was about 9.1 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
    • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
    • August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
    • September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
    • September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
    • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

Day of marriage May 25, 1907

  • The temperature on May 25, 1907 was between 10.4 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
    • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
    • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
    • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
    • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
    • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
    • December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.

Day of death August 15, 1931

  • The temperature on August 15, 1931 was between 12.1 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
    • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
    • March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
    • May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
    • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
    • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
    • November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.


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