Family tree Weening » Willem van der Woude (1887-1934)

Christening day July 24, 1887

• The temperature on July 24, 1887 was about 23.6 °C. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  • July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
  • November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

Day of marriage December 29, 1916

• The temperature on December 29, 1916 was between 2.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 15.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Day of death March 16, 1934

• The temperature on March 16, 1934 was between 2.9 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
  • February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
  • February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
  • June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
  • September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
  • October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1935 » John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1936 » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)