Family tree Weening » Trijntje Oldenburger (1896-1968)

Day of marriage May 5, 1917

• The temperature on May 5, 1917 was between 5.7 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
  • July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

Day of death February 9, 1968

• The temperature on February 9, 1968 was between 0.5 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
  • April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
  • April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • September 11 » Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
  • October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
  • October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)
• 1960 » Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)
• 1969 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)