Family tree Weening » Klaas Hummel (1873-1953)

Day of marriage May 2, 1903

• The temperature on May 2, 1903 was between 3.8 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (19%). 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.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.

Day of death August 12, 1953

• The temperature on August 12, 1953 was between 15.3 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
  • May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
  • June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
  • December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)