Family tree Weening » Emmina van Rijn (1871-1944)

Day of marriage May 31, 1903

• The temperature on May 31, 1903 was between 11.9 °C and 29.4 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 16.4 hours of sunshine (100%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
  • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  • June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.

Day of death May 11, 1944

• The temperature on May 11, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • April 14 » Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20million pounds.
  • July 6 » The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
  • July 17 » World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
  • October 6 » World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
  • November 7 » Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
  • November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)