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Personal data Willem Balkema 


Household of Willem Balkema

He is married to Anje Koning.

They got married on May 19, 1898 at Leens (Gr), he was 27 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Hilje Balkema  1898-1957
  2. Manna Balkema  1900-1959
  3. Jan Balkema  1902-1972
  4. Jannes Balkema  1904-1992
  5. Anco Balkema  1906-
  6. Klasiena Balkema  1908-1908
  7. Klaas Balkema  1909-1987
  10. Klasiena Balkema  1916-2010
  11. (Not public)

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Leens 1870
  2. Overlijdensregister Adorp 1954
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/2025240/balkema
  4. Huwelijksregister Leens 1898

Historical events

Birthday November 4, 1870

  • The temperature on November 4, 1870 was about 10.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
    • February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
    • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
    • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
    • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
    • July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.

Day of marriage May 19, 1898

  • The temperature on May 19, 1898 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
    • July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
    • July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
    • August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
    • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
    • November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

Day of death November 27, 1954

  • The temperature on November 27, 1954 was between 7.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • January 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
    • April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
    • July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
    • September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
    • October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
    • December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.


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