Family tree Reininga » Henry Herman Reininga (1890-1960)

Day of marriage September 18, 1913

• The temperature on September 18, 1913 was between 10.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
  • February 19 » Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
  • February 20 » King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
  • March 4 » First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
  • April 8 » The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
  • May 3 » Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.

Day of death August 12, 1960

• The temperature on August 12, 1960 was between 9.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
  • January 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
  • January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
  • April 8 » The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
  • July 21 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
  • September 2 » The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)