When Harm Nanno Nanninga was born on 15 August 1864, in Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands, his father, Peter Nanninga, was 31 and his mother, Geertruida Ouding, was 27. He married Geertje Schokkenbroek on 28 June 1900, in Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters.
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Amstel Brewery was founded on June 11, 1870, in Amsterdam. It is named after the Amstel River which served for refrigeration. They use ice from canals to help keep their brews cold.
The Dutch began colonization efforts in Aceh province (Indonesia), which led to a decades-long war.
The Hague Peace Convention was a series conferences that produced treaties and declarations. The convention took place in Hague, Netherlands. The conferences were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in secular international law.
East Frisian and Dutch (mainly Groningen), and also North Frisian and West Frisian: patronymic from the personal name Nanne (see Nannen ). It is formed with the Frisian patronymic suffix -ing and genitive plural ending -a. This surname is rare in North Frisia (Germany) and in West Frisia (ie. in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands).
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