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.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
  • July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

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.
  • February 21 » The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
  • February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
  • April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
  • July 1 » The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
  • October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
  • December 8 » United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.

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)