Family tree Weening » Frans Harmen Bruinja (1885-1965)

Day of marriage June 27, 1908

• The temperature on June 27, 1908 was between 12.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • October 14 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

Day of death March 23, 1965

• The temperature on March 23, 1965 was between 4.2 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 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 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.
  • March 2 » The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
  • March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
  • June 3 » The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
  • August 18 » Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
  • September 21 » The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
  • December 21 » International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Albert Bloch, American painter and educator (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Jack Russell, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Peter Lorre, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (b. 1918)