Family tree Weening » Klaas Zijlstra (1902-1969)

Day of marriage May 24, 1928

• The temperature on May 24, 1928 was between 1.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 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 year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
  • November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
  • November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death January 7, 1969

• The temperature on January 7, 1969 was between 0.2 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
  • July 20 » A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
  • August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
  • August 17 » Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
  • October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
  • November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)