Family tree Weening » Roelf Kamminga (1899-1972)

Day of marriage May 30, 1924

• The temperature on May 30, 1924 was between 10.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • 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.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

Day of death July 20, 1972

• The temperature on July 20, 1972 was between 18.8 °C and 31.4 °C and averaged 25.3 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 8 » Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
  • January 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
  • April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • September 24 » Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
  • November 23 » The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
  • November 30 » Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Iain Macleod, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (b. 1930)
• 1973 » Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Robert Smithson, American photographer and sculptor (b. 1938)
• 1974 » Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (b. 1900)
• 1974 » Kamal Dasgupta, Bengali music director, composer and folk artist. (b. 1912)