Database Admiraal » Jan Cornelis Kerkwijk (1902-1996)

Day of marriage November 14, 1923

• The temperature on November 14, 1923 was between 2.0 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
  • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • 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 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

Day of death December 18, 1996

• The temperature on December 18, 1996 was between 2.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
  • July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
  • July 18 » Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
  • September 27 » The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory, who establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1926)
• 1995 » Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (b. 1910)
• 1995 » Ross Thomas, American author (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Irving Caesar, American composer (b. 1895)
• 1996 » Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1997 » Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (b. 1964)