Family tree Weening » Pietje Elzenga (1889-1961)

Day of marriage August 29, 1908

• The temperature on August 29, 1908 was between 10.2 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

Day of death October 7, 1961

• The temperature on October 7, 1961 was between 8.9 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 9 » British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London.
  • January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
  • January 26 » John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be the first woman Physician to the President.
  • April 8 » A large explosion on board the MVDara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
  • May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
  • September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)