Family tree Weening » Jacob Slotegraaf (1899-1969)

Day of marriage July 16, 1921

• The temperature on July 16, 1921 was between 12.5 °C and 29.1 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
  • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

Day of death October 11, 1969

• The temperature on October 11, 1969 was between 6.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
  • July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
  • August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
  • October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
  • November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Stanley Morison, typographer, known for work on Times New Roman font (b. 1889)
• 1968 » Selim Sarper, Turkish educator and politician, 13th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)