April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage August 10, 1935
The temperature on August 10, 1935 was between 11.6 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
Day of death November 26, 1944
The temperature on November 26, 1944 was between 1.4 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
June 22 » World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
August 5 » World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
August 20 » World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
October 13 » World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
October 20 » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands.
October 25 » Second World War: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Hans Weening, "Family tree Weening", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-weening/I113864.php : accessed October 24, 2026), "Eelke Hoekstra (1902-1944)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.