Family tree Weening » Jan Wybrens de Haan (1870-1944)

Day of marriage May 16, 1895

• The temperature on May 16, 1895 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
  • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
  • September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
  • October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
  • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Day of death June 24, 1944

• The temperature on June 24, 1944 was between 6.8 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 30 » Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
  • June 5 » World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
  • June 22 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
  • August 1 » World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1931 » Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (b. 1870)
• 1946 » Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)