Family tree Weening » Jan Cornelis Kappenburg (1889-1957)

Day of marriage June 4, 1911

• The temperature on June 4, 1911 was between 12.8 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

Day of death December 20, 1957

• The temperature on December 20, 1957 was between 3.1 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
  • June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
  • July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
  • August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
  • October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
• 1954 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1956 » Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)
• 1959 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
• 1961 » Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)