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Personal data Willem Henstra 


Household of Willem Henstra

He is married to Sjoukje Hoekstra.

They got married on October 2, 1926 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 19 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  2. Frans Henstra  1928-1989
  3. Geeske Henstra  1933-1937
  4. Wieger Henstra  1934-1997
  5. Halbe Henstra  1935-2010
  6. Geert Henstra  1938-2023

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1906, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/254604/henstra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1926, Achtkarspelen

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Historical events

Birthday October 7, 1906

  • The temperature on October 7, 1906 was between 9.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
    • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
    • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
    • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
    • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
    • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Day of marriage October 2, 1926

  • The temperature on October 2, 1926 was between 5.5 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
    • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
    • June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
    • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
    • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
    • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
    • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death January 20, 1982

  • The temperature on January 20, 1982 was between 0.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1982: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • March 29 » The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
    • June 3 » The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
    • September 20 » Football players begin a 57-day strike during the 1982 NFL season.
    • November 12 » USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
    • November 13 » Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
    • November 30 » Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best-selling record album in history.


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