Family tree Weening » Hendrikje Zijlstra (1882-1975)

Day of marriage March 24, 1923

• The temperature on March 24, 1923 was between 1.9 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
  • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
  • June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
  • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

Day of death February 8, 1975

• The temperature on February 8, 1975 was between -1.8 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
  • February 28 » In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
  • April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
  • August 3 » A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
  • September 30 » The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
  • November 14 » With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Maurice Maillot, French actor (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)