Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Cynthia Simmelink (1892-1981)

Day of marriage June 27, 1917

• The temperature on June 27, 1917 was between 7.7 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
  • March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
  • July 20 » World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
  • July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
  • October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
  • December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.

Day of death October 13, 1989

• The temperature on October 13, 1989 was between 9.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • January 4 » Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
  • February 8 » Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.
  • April 19 » A gun turret explodes on the USSIowa, killing 47 sailors.
  • May 20 » The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
  • August 22 » Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
  • December 29 » The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (b. 1929)
• 1987 » Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet and author (b. 1958)
• 1987 » Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Hans Namuth, German-American photographer (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 » James Marshall, American author and illustrator (b. 1942)