Family tree Weening » Wieger Nicolai (1899-1974)

Day of marriage May 1, 1924

• The temperature on May 1, 1924 was between 6.3 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

Day of death August 27, 1974

• The temperature on August 27, 1974 was between 9.5 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • January 2 » United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
  • January 6 » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
  • March 1 » Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
  • May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
  • September 12 » Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
  • November 20 » The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)
• 1978 » Gordon Matta-Clark, American painter and illustrator (b. 1943)
• 1978 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author and poet (b. 1897)