Family tree Weening » Jan van der Meulen (1889-1968)

Day of marriage March 27, 1915

• The temperature on March 27, 1915 was between -4.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 16 » At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

Day of death July 17, 1968

• The temperature on July 17, 1968 was between 8.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • March 17 » As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
  • May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
  • September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
  • September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
  • December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
  • December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)
• 1961 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
• 1967 » John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)
• 1974 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)