Family tree Van Weeghel » Harmen Fidder (1892-1955)

Day of marriage February 17, 1916

• The temperature on February 17, 1916 was between 1.6 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
  • February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
  • August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Day of death January 28, 1955

• The temperature on January 28, 1955 was between 1.1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • February 8 » The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
  • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
  • June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
  • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  • October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 » Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
• 1953 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1960 » Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)