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.
  • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
  • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
  • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
  • 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.
  • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
  • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
  • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.

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 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
  • February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
  • May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
  • July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  • August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
  • September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.

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)