Family tree Weening » Willem Brouwer (1893-1961)

Day of marriage September 4, 1924

• The temperature on September 4, 1924 was between 12.4 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Day of death January 9, 1961

• The temperature on January 9, 1961 was between 1.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
  • January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
  • March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
  • May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
  • June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
  • September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)