Genealogy De Bruine Duiveland » Pieternella van Splunter (1909-1997)

Day of marriage March 28, 1933

• The average temperature on March 28, 1933 was 8.5 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 12 » Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
  • April 1 » The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
  • August 7 » The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
  • September 21 » Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
  • October 19 » Konstantin von Neurath withdraws Germany from the League of Nations.
  • November 8 » Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.

Day of death January 17, 1997

• The temperature on January 17, 1997 was between -1.7 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • July 1 » China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
  • July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • August 7 » Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
  • October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1996 » Sylvia Lawler, English geneticist (b. 1922))
• 1997 » Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906)