Family tree Weening » Nanne Louwsma (1884-1952)

Day of marriage May 14, 1914

• The temperature on May 14, 1914 was between 8.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
  • August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
  • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Day of death January 20, 1952

• The average temperature on January 20, 1952 was 1.2 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
  • February 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
  • May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
  • July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
  • October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
  • December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Andrew Volstead, American member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1954 » Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)