Family tree Weening » Anna Mekkes (1884-1965)

Day of marriage August 8, 1907

• The temperature on August 8, 1907 was between 11.7 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • August 29 » The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Day of death June 3, 1965

• The temperature on June 3, 1965 was between 7.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
  • April 9 » Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
  • September 6 » India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
  • September 30 » The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
  • November 8 » The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
  • December 4 » Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)