Genealogy Jongepier » Johanna Pieternella Bassie (1901-1990)

Day of marriage August 27, 1924

• The temperature on August 27, 1924 was between 8.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
  • December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Day of death February 27, 1990

• The temperature on February 27, 1990 was between 3.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
  • June 20 » Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
  • July 26 » The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
  • September 30 » The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
  • November 13 » In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
  • December 22 » Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
• 1987 » Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1992 » S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)