Family tree Weening » Bertha Klopstra (1899-1970)

Day of marriage May 16, 1924

• The temperature on May 16, 1924 was between 6.7 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

Day of death April 18, 1970

• The temperature on April 18, 1970 was between 7.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • March 5 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
  • April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
  • April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
  • July 8 » Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
  • August 26 » A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
  • September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)