Family tree Weening » Haye Bekkema (1888-1955)
Personal data Haye Bekkema
- He was born on December 5, 1888 in Opende, gem. Grootegast (Gr).Source 1
- He died on April 16, 1955 in Ureterp, gem. Opsterland (Fr), he was 66 years old.Source 2
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- A child of Harm Riekeles Bekkema and Aaltje Hayes Bruinsma
- This information was last updated on June 16, 2023.
Household of Haye Bekkema
Attention: Wife (Froukje Boonstra) is also his cousin.
He is married to Froukje Boonstra.
They got married on May 10, 1917 at Opsterland (Fr), he was 28 years old.Source 3
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Birthday December 5, 1888
- The temperature on December 5, 1888 was about 6.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
- April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
- July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
Day of marriage May 10, 1917
- The temperature on May 10, 1917 was between 3.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
- July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
- October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
- December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
Day of death April 16, 1955
- The temperature on April 16, 1955 was between 0.4 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1955: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
- April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
- May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
- October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
- October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.
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