Family tree Weening » Geertje Faber (1904-1955)

Day of marriage May 24, 1929

• The temperature on May 24, 1929 was between 11.5 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
  • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
  • May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.

Day of death October 4, 1955

• The temperature on October 4, 1955 was between 6.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
  • April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
  • July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
  • August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
  • September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
  • November 15 » The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 » Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 » Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)