Family tree Weening » Antje Kootstra (1901-1991)

Day of marriage November 5, 1921

• The temperature on November 5, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
  • February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
  • November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

Day of death July 10, 1991

• The temperature on July 10, 1991 was between 10.4 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.
  • January 15 » Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
  • July 7 » Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • August 8 » The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
  • September 5 » The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
  • December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
• 1987 » John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (b. 1901)
• 1993 » Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1995 » Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)