Family tree Weening » Gerrit Broersma (1906-1984)

Day of marriage October 4, 1928

• The temperature on October 4, 1928 was between 3.6 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • 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 February 13, 1984

• The temperature on February 13, 1984 was between -3.3 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
  • January 24 » Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
  • April 4 » President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
  • October 19 » A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
  • October 31 » Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.
  • December 10 » United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (b. 1938)
• 1980 » David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1984 » Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (b. 1888)
• 1986 » Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
• 1989 » Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1911)
• 1991 » Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (b. 1900)