Family tree Weening » Pieter Steiger (1894-1980)

Day of marriage May 22, 1920

• The temperature on May 22, 1920 was between 4.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 19 » The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
  • 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.
  • March 19 » The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
  • May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
  • August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
  • November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.

Day of death August 31, 1980

• The temperature on August 31, 1980 was between 10.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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)
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
  • April 12 » The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
  • May 9 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
  • July 24 » The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
  • November 12 » The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
  • December 2 » Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1886)
• 1984 » Audrey Wagner, American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)