Family tree Weening » Freerkje van der Heide (1883-1963)

Day of marriage August 13, 1904

• The temperature on August 13, 1904 was between 6.1 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Day of death November 22, 1963

• The temperature on November 22, 1963 was between 5.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • June 11 » John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
  • June 17 » A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
  • July 19 » Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
  • August 15 » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
  • October 12 » After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
  • December 22 » The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles (290km) north of Madeira, Portugal with the loss of 128 lives.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1963 » C. S. Lewis, British writer, critic and Christian apologist (b. 1898)
• 1963 » J. D. Tippit, American police officer (Dallas Police Department) (b. 1924)
• 1963 » John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
• 1963 » Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905)
• 1967 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)