Family tree Weening » Gerrit Merkus (1912-1993)

Day of marriage June 1, 1937

• The temperature on June 1, 1937 was between 6.3 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
  • March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
  • June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
  • December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

Day of death June 25, 1993

• The temperature on June 25, 1993 was between 8.9 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
  • February 26 » World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
  • June 25 » Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
  • September 30 » The 6.2 M_w  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
  • October 4 » Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (b. 1940)
• 1992 » Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
• 1995 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Warren E. Burger, Fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1914)
• 1997 » Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)