Family tree Weening » Johanna Wever (1881-1951)

Day of marriage April 27, 1901

• The temperature on April 27, 1901 was between 2.2 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (40%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.

Day of death June 21, 1951

• The temperature on June 21, 1951 was between 9.9 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
  • March 29 » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
  • May 13 » The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
  • July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
  • July 16 » King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
  • September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
• 1951 » Gustave Sandras, French gymnast (b. 1872)
• 1952 » Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Claude Farrère, French captain and author (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)