Family tree Weening » Wijke Wilpstra (1880-1968)

Day of marriage May 21, 1904

• The temperature on May 21, 1904 was between 4.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Day of death February 25, 1968

• The temperature on February 25, 1968 was between -4.0 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
  • March 17 » As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
  • April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
  • November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
  • December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
• 1964 » Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924)
• 1970 » Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)