The temperature on June 14, 1911 was between 2.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
Day of marriage May 29, 1941
The temperature on May 29, 1941 was between 9.8 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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.
March 29 » World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
June 1 » World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
September 28 » Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
September 28 » World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
October 31 » After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
Day of death May 20, 2005
The temperature on May 20, 2005 was between 13.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
June 21 » Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
July 7 » A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
October 15 » A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.
October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
December 7 » Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
December 17 » Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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/I119008.php : accessed October 11, 2026), "Klaas de Vries (1911-2005)".
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.