Family tree Weening » Henderika Dijkstra (1887-1926)

Day of marriage May 22, 1909

• The temperature on May 22, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

Day of death July 29, 1926

• The temperature on July 29, 1926 was between 11.4 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Marie Adam-Doerrer (b. 1838)
• 1913 » Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1918 » Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (b. 1863)
• 1924 » Sotirios Krokidas, Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
• 1934 » Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 » Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)