Family tree Weening » Albert Eelkes de Vries (1878-1938)

Day of marriage May 12, 1923

• The temperature on May 12, 1923 was between 2.7 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
  • April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
  • June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
  • July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
  • October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.
  • 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» United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.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 June 8, 1938

• The temperature on June 8, 1938 was between 12.5 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1924 » George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
• 1951 » Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)