Family tree Weening » Fenje van Wijk (1908-1971)

Day of marriage December 17, 1934

• The temperature on December 17, 1934 was between 5.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
  • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
  • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
  • May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  • November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
  • December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Day of death June 16, 1971

• The temperature on June 16, 1971 was between 7.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • May 30 » Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
  • July 30 » An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
  • August 22 » J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
  • September 13 » State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
  • September 21 » Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
  • December 5 » Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1971 » John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1974 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894)