Family tree Weening » Pieter Fokko Wijma (1903-1967)

Day of marriage April 17, 1930

• The temperature on April 17, 1930 was between 5.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
  • January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
  • May 27 » The 1,046 feet (319m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
  • June 1 » The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives.

Day of death September 24, 1967

• The temperature on September 24, 1967 was between 12.6 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 14 » Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
  • January 14 » The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
  • March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
  • June 10 » The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
  • October 2 » Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • November 30 » South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

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