Family tree Weening » Klaas Brouwer (1903-1940)

Day of marriage May 24, 1930

• The temperature on May 24, 1930 was between 8.7 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
  • April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
  • June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
  • August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
  • December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

Day of death May 16, 1940

• The temperature on May 16, 1940 was between 5.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
  • May 27 » World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
  • June 21 » World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
  • July 11 » World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
  • August 26 » Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
  • November 10 » The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)