Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Willem Adriaan Jacobus PRETORIUS (1910-1979)

Personal data Willem Adriaan Jacobus PRETORIUS 


Household of Willem Adriaan Jacobus PRETORIUS

He is married to Aletha Johanna van der MERWE.

They got married in the year 1932 at Bakerville, Lichtenburg, he was 21 years old.


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  4. Willem Carel PRETORIUS  1953-1998 

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    Historical events

    • The temperature on November 24, 1910 was between -2.8 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
      • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
      • April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
      • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
      • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
      • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
      • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
    • The temperature on June 16, 1979 was between 6.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
      • March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
      • March 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
      • May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
      • June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
      • June 12 » Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
      • December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
    

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    Gert Esterhuizen, "Family tree Eric Esterhuizen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I15715.php : accessed February 25, 2026), "Willem Adriaan Jacobus PRETORIUS (1910-1979)".