Family tree Weening » Jan Nicolai (1899-1972)

Day of marriage May 19, 1927

• The temperature on May 19, 1927 was between 2.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death August 12, 1972

• The temperature on August 12, 1972 was between 5.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
  • June 15 » Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
  • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
  • September 6 » Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
  • September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
  • November 7 » US President Richard Nixon is re-elected President.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)