Family tree Weening » Jakob van Wijk (1887-1975)

Day of marriage February 27, 1915

• The temperature on February 27, 1915 was between -1.3 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

Day of death October 29, 1975

• The temperature on October 29, 1975 was between 1.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • April 3 » Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
  • April 29 » Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
  • June 29 » Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
  • July 5 » Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
  • September 14 » The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
  • September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
• 1980 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)