Family tree Weening » Rein van der Meer (1906-1978)

Day of marriage May 23, 1935

• The temperature on May 23, 1935 was between 9.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
  • May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • June 11 » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
  • October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
  • December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.

Day of death April 17, 1978

• The temperature on April 17, 1978 was between -0.7 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  • May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
  • October 21 » Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
  • November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
  • December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1977 » William Conway, Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)