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Personal data Willem Boersma 


Household of Willem Boersma

He is married to Katharina Smidt.

They got married on December 21, 1888 at Emmen.


Child(ren):

  1. Grietje Boersma  1890-1890
  2. Willem Boersma  ± 1891-????
  3. Girbe Boersma  1893-1918
  4. Berend Boersma  1894-????
  5. Hendrikkien Boersma  ± 1896-????
  6. Johannes Boersma  1897-????
  7. Katharinus Boersma  1898-????
  8. Jan Boersma  1899-1909
  10. Wilhelmina Boersma  ± 1903-

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Day of marriage December 21, 1888

  • The temperature on December 21, 1888 was about 6.3 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
    • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
    • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
    • July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
    • August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
    • September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
    • October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

Day of death December 22, 1939

  • The temperature on December 22, 1939 was between -10.9 °C and -1.6 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
    • April 20 » Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday's celebrations in Germany
    • April 30 » NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
    • May 3 » The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
    • June 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
    • August 15 » The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
    • September 30 » World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.


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  • 1941 » Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, composer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
  • 1942 » Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. 1858)
  • 1943 » Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1866)
  • 1944 » Harry Langdon, American actor, comedian, and vaudevillian (b. 1884)

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