Family tree Weening » Jan Brandsma (1899-1969)

Day of marriage May 19, 1928

• The temperature on May 19, 1928 was between 3.4 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
  • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death October 24, 1969

• The temperature on October 24, 1969 was between 9.9 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
  • January 30 » The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
  • June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
  • September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
  • November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
  • November 24 » Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)
• 1971 » Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 1971 » Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919)