Family tree Weening » Pieter Hondema (1876-1962)

Day of marriage October 31, 1907

• The temperature on October 31, 1907 was between 5.4 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • July 29 » Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Day of death August 22, 1962

• The temperature on August 22, 1962 was between 12.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
  • March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
  • May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
  • September 23 » The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
  • October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)