Family tree Weening » Jacobus Bonifacius Dijkstra (1891-1969)

Day of marriage April 9, 1920

• The temperature on April 9, 1920 was between 9.1 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
  • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
  • May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
  • August 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
  • November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France

Day of death February 3, 1969

• The temperature on February 3, 1969 was between -1.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
  • January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
  • April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
  • April 22 » British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
  • July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
  • November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Benjamin R. Jacobs (b. 1879)
• 1967 » Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 1969 » C. N. Annadurai, Indian journalist and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (b. 1909)
• 1969 » Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambican activist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1975 » Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1904)
• 1975 » William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (b. 1873)