Family tree Weening » Lamke Mertens (1896-1976)

Day of marriage May 20, 1916

• The temperature on May 20, 1916 was between 3.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
  • November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

Day of death July 28, 1976

• The temperature on July 28, 1976 was between 10.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
  • April 13 » The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
  • November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
  • November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
  • November 24 » The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1972 » Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)