Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Leonard W. Gabrielse (1915-1989)

Day of marriage November 29, 1935

• The temperature on November 29, 1935 was between 3.5 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
  • August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
  • October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
  • 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.
  • December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.

Day of death February 12, 1989

• The temperature on February 12, 1989 was between 4.5 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 14 » Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
  • August 2 » Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
  • November 13 » Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
  • November 16 » El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
  • December 27 » The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
  • December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Anna Anderson, Polish-American woman, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and author (b. 1931)
• 1991 » Roger Patterson, American bass player (b. 1968)
• 1992 » Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)