Dreyer Tree » Dina Maria "Ouma Plaasie" (Dina Maria "Ouma Plaasie") Rothman (1900-1989)

Day of marriage April 17, 1923

• The temperature on April 17, 1923 was between 4.0 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
  • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
  • August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

Day of death November 27, 1989

• The temperature on November 27, 1989 was between 6.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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 year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • April 3 » The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
  • August 8 » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
  • August 18 » Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
  • November 20 » Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
  • November 28 » Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
  • December 16 » U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Steve Tracy, American actor (b, 1952)
• 1988 » Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927)
• 1988 » John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1989 » Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic (b. 1951)
• 1990 » David White, American actor (b. 1916)