Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Maud Otte (1917-1988)

Day of marriage June 26, 1940

• The temperature on June 26, 1940 was between 10.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 29 » 12th Academy Awards: For her performance as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
  • March 30 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
  • May 5 » World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
  • July 20 » Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
  • September 12 » Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
  • December 14 » Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Day of death May 26, 1988

• The temperature on May 26, 1988 was between 13.5 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 16 » Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
  • April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
  • May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
  • June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
  • August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park

Day of burial May 31, 1988

• The temperature on May 31, 1988 was between 9.8 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
  • October 5 » A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
  • November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
  • November 16 » In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  • December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1984 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1995 » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1906)
• 1997 » Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1896)