Family tree Weening » Eelkje Dijkstra (1896-1949)

Day of marriage May 17, 1919

• The temperature on May 17, 1919 was between 6.6 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • June 11 » Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
  • September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Day of death June 20, 1949

• The temperature on June 20, 1949 was between 8.2 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (73%). 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
  • April 18 » The keel for the aircraft carrier USSUnited States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
  • May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
  • November 26 » The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)