Family tree Weening » Dirk Hendrik Wilkens (1883-1953)

Day of marriage May 15, 1909

• The temperature on May 15, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • 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.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
  • 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 October 27, 1953

• The temperature on October 27, 1953 was between 6.5 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
  • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
  • July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
  • December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• 1947 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1953 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1957 » James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)