Genealogie Krab-van Laar » Kos Wijker (1903-1992)

Day of marriage December 12, 1927

• The temperature on December 12, 1927 was between -2.8 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Day of death September 4, 1992

• The temperature on September 4, 1992 was between 9.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 16.7 mm of rain during 9.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • February 4 » A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
  • May 5 » Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): Eighteen people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between SC Bastia and Olympique de Marseille.
  • May 21 » After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
  • May 24 » The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
  • September 12 » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
  • December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Lawrence A. Cremin, American historian and author (b. 1925)
• 1991 » Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Dottie West, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1932)
• 1991 » Tom Tryon, American actor and author (b. 1926)
• 1993 » Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (b. 1943)