Family tree Weening » Willemke Klazes Wiersma (1858-1943)

Day of marriage June 16, 1888

• The temperature on June 16, 1888 was about 12.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
  • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
  • October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

Day of death January 21, 1943

• The temperature on January 21, 1943 was between 5.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 4 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 2 » World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
  • April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
  • April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
  • April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
  • May 15 » Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
  • October 17 » Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1938 » Georges Méliès, French actor, director, and producer (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer and educator (b. 1876)
• 1950 » George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (b. 1903)