Family tree Weening » Albert Elzinga (1903-1993)

Day of marriage July 23, 1927

• The temperature on July 23, 1927 was between 12.7 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

Day of death December 11, 1993

• The temperature on December 11, 1993 was between 1.7 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
  • March 11 » Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
  • April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
  • April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
  • April 30 » CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
  • November 11 » A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
• 1995 » Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)
• 1996 » Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937)