Family tree Weening » Marten van der Zwaag (1878-1959)

Day of marriage July 26, 1906

• The temperature on July 26, 1906 was between 9.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Day of death December 16, 1959

• The temperature on December 16, 1959 was between -1.5 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
  • February 17 » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
  • June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
  • July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
  • August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
  • September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b. 1896)
• 1956 » Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter and author (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882)
• 1965 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1874)
• 1968 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916)