Family tree Weening » Lamberta Henderika Meinema (1896-1972)

Day of marriage May 19, 1920

• The temperature on May 19, 1920 was between 8.1 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 10 » The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
  • January 19 » The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
  • June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
  • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
  • August 31 » Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
  • September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

Day of death May 25, 1972

• The temperature on May 25, 1972 was between 10.5 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
  • February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
  • March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
  • April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
  • September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
  • December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 » Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)