Dinteloord en omliggende gemeenten » Hendrika Elizabeth van Opdorp (1908-1987)

Day of marriage May 25, 1935

• The temperature on May 25, 1935 was between 11.0 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
  • January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
  • September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
  • November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
  • December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.

Day of death May 4, 1987

• The temperature on May 4, 1987 was between 5.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
  • April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
  • May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
  • July 4 » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
  • July 29 » Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
• 1985 » Clarence Wiseman, English-Canadian 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
• 1985 » Fikri Sönmez, Turkish tailor and politician (b. 1938)
• 1987 » Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1942)
• 1988 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1891)