Family tree Weening » Else Kranenborg (1911-2001)

Day of marriage May 10, 1938

• The temperature on May 10, 1938 was between 0.5 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

Day of death October 13, 2001

• The temperature on October 13, 2001 was between 11.5 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (62%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
  • June 1 » Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
  • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  • September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  • November 13 » War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
  • November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Michael Hartnett, Irish poet (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Peter Doyle, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 2002 » Keene Curtis, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Stephen Ambrose, American historian and author (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)