Family tree Weening » Mekke Nicolai (1890-1960)

Day of marriage May 27, 1916

• The temperature on May 27, 1916 was between 9.8 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
  • September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
  • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
  • November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.

Day of death October 12, 1960

• The temperature on October 12, 1960 was between 7.8 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 55.9 mm of rain during 15.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
  • January 28 » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
  • April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
  • April 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
• 1958 » Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)