Family tree Weening » Harmen Jans van der Meer (1881-1948)

Day of marriage January 24, 1903

• The temperature on January 24, 1903 was between -1.2 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. 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.
  • January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.

Day of death September 12, 1948

• The temperature on September 12, 1948 was between 11.3 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (54%). 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 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.
  • May 26 » The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
  • August 3 » Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
  • September 18 » Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
  • October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
  • November 1 » Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.
  • December 22 » Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
• 1945 » Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (b. 1880)
• 1949 » Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (b. 1870)
• 1953 » Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (b. 1884)
• 1953 » James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)