Family tree Weening » Grietje de Wit (1868-1952)

Day of marriage February 26, 1891

• The temperature on February 26, 1891 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
  • March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
  • March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
  • May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
  • July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
  • August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.

Day of death December 16, 1952

• The temperature on December 16, 1952 was between -2.7 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
  • March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
  • May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
  • July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
  • September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
  • November 4 » The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Betsie ten Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
• 1945 » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)
• 1952 » Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b. 1896)
• 1956 » Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter and author (b. 1890)