Family tree Weening » Albert Veenstra (1897-1967)

Day of marriage August 5, 1916

• The temperature on August 5, 1916 was between 7.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
  • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

Day of death April 10, 1967

• The temperature on April 10, 1967 was between 5.3 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
  • September 30 » The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched.
  • November 3 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
  • November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
  • November 30 » Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
  • December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1965 » Lloyd Casner, American race car driver, founded Casner Motor Racing Division (b. 1928)
• 1966 » Evelyn Waugh, English soldier, novelist, journalist and critic (b. 1903)
• 1968 » Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian lieutenant and politician (b. 1899)
• 1969 » Harley Earl, American businessman (b. 1893)