Family tree Weening » Grietje Turkstra (1892-1965)

Day of marriage May 17, 1924

• The temperature on May 17, 1924 was between 3.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

Day of death October 3, 1965

• The temperature on October 3, 1965 was between 7.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • March 25 » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • March 30 » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
  • August 18 » Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
  • November 8 » The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
  • November 11 » Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia
  • December 3 » The Beatles release highly successful and influential experimental folk album Rubber Soul.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)