Family tree Weening » Imke Hofman (1876-1965)

Day of marriage May 22, 1909

• The temperature on May 22, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (77%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

Day of death February 8, 1965

• The temperature on February 8, 1965 was between 1.4 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 18 » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • February 21 » Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
  • September 7 » Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
  • November 9 » A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
  • December 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
  • December 31 » Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » William J. Donovan, American head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
• 1960 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
• 1963 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1968 » Maurice Maillot, French actor (b. 1906)