Family tree Weening » Symon Wijnands (1903-1973)

Day of marriage June 8, 1929

• The temperature on June 8, 1929 was between 5.3 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
  • February 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
  • May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
  • November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death August 20, 1973

• The temperature on August 20, 1973 was between 11.5 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
  • May 25 » In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
  • June 3 » A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
  • October 30 » The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
  • November 8 » The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
  • November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1982 » Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)