Family tree Weening » Hiske van Eik (1912-1991)

Day of marriage April 13, 1934

• The temperature on April 13, 1934 was between 4.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
  • July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
  • July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
  • July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  • November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
  • December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Day of death August 2, 1991

• The temperature on August 2, 1991 was between 11.4 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • August 9 » The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.
  • August 25 » The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).
  • August 27 » Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
  • September 21 » Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
  • September 29 » A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
  • December 16 » Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Roy Cohn, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Joe Carcione, American activist and author (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Raymond Carver, American short story writer and poet (b. 1938)
• 1990 » Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)