Family tree Weening » Grietje Scheffer (1874-1953)

Day of marriage May 30, 1896

• The temperature on May 30, 1896 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
  • April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.

Day of death June 18, 1953

• The temperature on June 18, 1953 was between 8.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
  • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
  • June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
  • July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
  • December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
• 1945 » Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1945 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
• 1947 » Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
• 1948 » Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1891)
• 1959 » Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)