Family tree Weening » Jan Drent (1893-1953)

Day of marriage May 15, 1915

• The temperature on May 15, 1915 was between 0.1 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

Day of death August 23, 1953

• The temperature on August 23, 1953 was between 10.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
  • April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
  • June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
  • 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
  • November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)