When Maria Maaike den Hartigh was born on 10 November 1851, in Westmaas, South Holland, Netherlands, her father, Paulus den Hartigh, was 36 and her mother, Hendrina Margaretha van Steenbergen, was 23. She married Dingeman Groeneveld on 11 April 1873, in Westmaas, South Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 19 March 1928, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, at the age of 76.
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Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
In 1856, Rotterdam Zoo, or Blijdorp zoo opened. It was heavily damaged in WWII and the animals were moved to the present location at the end of the 1940s.
The Dutch began colonization efforts in Aceh province (Indonesia), which led to a decades-long war.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄧, see Deng .
Chinese: possibly from the Romanization of certain Chinese personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.
Origin undetermined. — Note: It is possible that in the population figure published by the US Census Bureau the Dutch case-inflected definite article de ‘the’, which forms first part of surnames such as Den Bleyker and Den Boer , is in some instances counted as an independent surname. Compare Ten .
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