Family tree Homan - Meijer - van der Naalt - Boonstra » Sjoerd Driest (1906-1988)

Day of marriage May 24, 1927

• The temperature on May 24, 1927 was between 9.4 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
  • March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

Day of death November 22, 1988

• The temperature on November 22, 1988 was between -6.3 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
  • May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
  • June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
  • August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
  • August 20 » Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
  • November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
• 1989 » C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1989 » René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
• 1992 » Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1917)