Genealogy N.P. Mantel » Gerardus Jacobus Beerepoot (1912-1992)

Day of marriage May 18, 1938

• The temperature on May 18, 1938 was between 7.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

Day of death February 27, 1992

• The temperature on February 27, 1992 was between 4.5 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 22 » Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
  • April 27 » The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
  • April 29 » Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
  • May 7 » Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
  • May 7 » Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
  • July 20 » Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.

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)