Family tree Weening » Alberdina de Boer (1880-1947)

Day of marriage January 14, 1907

• The temperature on January 14, 1907 was between 1.7 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • September 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Day of death October 28, 1947

• The temperature on October 28, 1947 was between 0.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
  • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
  • July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
  • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)