Familie Schot en anderen » Maria Alberdina Touw (1903-1995)

Day of marriage November 11, 1928

• The temperature on November 11, 1928 was between 2.8 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

Day of death June 20, 1995

• The temperature on June 20, 1995 was between 12.8 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The World Trade Organization comes into being.
  • January 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
  • March 31 » Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations of Saldívar embezzling money from Selena's fan club.
  • May 23 » The first version of the Java programming language is released.
  • September 19 » The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
  • September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 1997 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
• 2002 » Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)