Pedigree of De Jong, Koelé families » Janke Ritskes Hulshoff (1899-1995)

Day of marriage May 8, 1924

• The temperature on May 8, 1924 was between 4.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

Day of death August 6, 1995

• The temperature on August 6, 1995 was between 16.5 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
  • January 6 » A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
  • May 2 » During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
  • September 6 » Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
  • October 28 » The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
  • December 20 » NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1998 » André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)