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Personal data Durk Henstra 


Household of Durk Henstra

He is married to Froukje Bruinsma.

They got married on May 16, 1914 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 21 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Ruurd Henstra  1914-1915
  2. Ruurd Henstra  1915-1980
  3. Dirk Henstra  1917-1970
  4. Douwe Henstra  1919-1919
  5. Doutzen Henstra  1922-1989
  6. Pieter Henstra  1923-1923
  7. (Not public)
  8. Elske Henstra  1926-2013
  9. Pieter Henstra  1930-1931

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1893, Achtkarspelen
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/277917/henstra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1914, Achtkarspelen

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Historical events

  • The temperature on March 6, 1893 was about 5.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
    • February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
    • June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
    • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
    • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
    • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
  • The temperature on May 16, 1914 was between 4.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
    • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
    • August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
    • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
    • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
    • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
  • The temperature on November 15, 1972 was between -0.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • February 21 » The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
    • May 26 » The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
    • June 16 » The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
    • June 23 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
    • November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
    • November 11 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1893 » Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)
  • 1895 » Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian († 1976)
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Source: Wikipedia


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