Family tree Weening » Antoon Jan Hendrik Weenink (1899-1966)

Day of marriage March 21, 1928

• The temperature on March 21, 1928 was between -1.6 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

Day of death June 11, 1966

• The temperature on June 11, 1966 was between 17.0 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 21.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
  • August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
  • September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • September 30 » Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
  • October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
  • November 2 » The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)