Family tree Weening » Herman Rienk Pel (1894-1967)

Day of marriage October 10, 1923

• The temperature on October 10, 1923 was between 8.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 21.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
  • January 11 » Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
  • February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
  • March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
  • October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.

Day of death April 5, 1967

• The temperature on April 5, 1967 was between 1.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
  • May 20 » The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • June 4 » Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
  • November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
  • November 28 » The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
  • December 21 » Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Herbert Johnston, British runner (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (b. 1879)
• 1967 » Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (b. 1900)
• 1968 » Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer