Family tree Weening » Trijntje Jans van den Berg (1880-1948)

Day of marriage June 14, 1900

• The temperature on June 14, 1900 was about 19.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Day of death January 10, 1948

• The temperature on January 10, 1948 was between 1.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • June 26 » William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
  • July 16 » The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
  • September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
  • November 22 » Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
  • December 23 » Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
  • December 26 » The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879)
• 1941 » John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)