When Tijtske Wildschut was born on 14 October 1920, in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands, her father, Folkert Wildschut, was 27 and her mother, Maria de Jong, was 26. She married Hendrik Willem Christiaan Helleman on 10 November 1943. She died on 27 April 2014, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 93.
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Dutch women get the vote.
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
The Netherlands becomes a charter member of the United Nations.
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