Family tree Weening » Willem Weening (1873-1947)

Christening day March 23, 1873

• The temperature on March 23, 1873 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
  • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  • July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
  • August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
  • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
  • September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

Day of marriage November 11, 1905

• The temperature on November 11, 1905 was between 1.3 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)

Day of death May 5, 1947

• The temperature on May 5, 1947 was between 6.3 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
  • April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
  • November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
  • November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1931 » Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)