Family tree Weening » Rinske Boersma (1907-1983)

Christening day March 1, 1908

• The temperature on March 1, 1908 was between -2.5 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

Day of death January 11, 1983

• The temperature on January 11, 1983 was between 6.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
  • February 24 » A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
  • April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
  • June 5 » More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
  • July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
  • August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1982 » Paul Lynde, American Actor and comedian (b. 1926)
• 1985 » Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1985 » William McKell, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Sid Chaplin, English author and screenwriter (b. 1916)