Family tree Weening » Jan Ritzema (1917-1997)

Day of marriage May 19, 1938

• The temperature on May 19, 1938 was between 3.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

Day of death August 8, 1997

• The temperature on August 8, 1997 was between 16.0 °C and 29.4 °C and averaged 22.8 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
  • July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
  • September 18 » United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1billion to the United Nations.
  • December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
• 2003 » Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)