Family tree Weening » Oebele Hedzer Brandsma (1902-1979)

Day of marriage May 25, 1929

• The temperature on May 25, 1929 was between 11.9 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • June 7 » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Day of death April 13, 1979

• The temperature on April 13, 1979 was between 6.8 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
  • April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
  • May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
  • September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
  • November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » François Tombalbaye, Chadian soldier, academic, and politician, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
• 1975 » Larry Parks, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 1978 » Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and women's rights activist (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (b. 1931)
• 1980 » Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
• 1983 » Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934)