Family tree Weening » Pieter Durk de Vries (1911-1958)

Day of marriage November 18, 1933

• The temperature on November 18, 1933 was between 2.0 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
  • February 15 » In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
  • May 17 » Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
  • July 22 » Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
  • September 8 » Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
  • October 12 » The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

Day of death January 28, 1958

• The temperature on January 28, 1958 was between 1.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
  • July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
  • October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
  • October 27 » Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
  • December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1960 » Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)