Genealogy Spaak » Jantje "Jannie" Vonk (1918-1991)

Day of marriage September 12, 1938

• The temperature on September 12, 1938 was between 14.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Day of death March 22, 1991

• The temperature on March 22, 1991 was between 0.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • June 20 » German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital Berlin.
  • July 31 » The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
  • November 20 » An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
  • December 4 » Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
  • December 8 » The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • December 20 » A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Peta Taylor, English cricketer (b. 1912)
• 1990 » Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1928)
• 1991 » Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1991 » Gloria Holden, English-American actress (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1917)
• 1991 » Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1908)