Family tree Weening » Gerben Hoekstra (1876-1972)

Day of marriage May 26, 1900

• The temperature on May 26, 1900 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

Day of death June 16, 1972

• The temperature on June 16, 1972 was between 8.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
  • May 13 » Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
  • October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
  • November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
  • December 14 » Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1971 » John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1974 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894)