Genealogy Hensen » Helena Henrica Beekwilder (1902-1994)

Day of marriage October 17, 1929

• The temperature on October 17, 1929 was between 9.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

Day of death February 19, 1994

• The temperature on February 19, 1994 was between -7.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • September 30 » Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
  • October 15 » The Clinton administration returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
  • October 27 » Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
  • November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
  • December 10 » Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Tojo Yamamoto, American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Derek Jarman, English director and set designer (b. 1942)
• 1996 » Charlie Finley, American businessman (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1904)
• 1997 » Leo Rosten, Polish-American author and academic (b. 1908)
• 1998 » Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1913)