Genealogy Van de Merwe / Van de Merwede » Leendert Jan SINT NICOLAAS (1907-1999)

Day of marriage January 7, 1933

• The temperature on January 7, 1933 was between 2.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 13 » Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
  • May 6 » The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
  • July 6 » The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
  • August 24 » The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
  • August 27 » The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
  • October 10 » A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

Day of death April 14, 1999

• The temperature on April 14, 1999 was between 0.4 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
  • April 19 » The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
  • May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
  • November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Anthony Newley, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1999 » Bill Wendell, American television announcer (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2000 » August R. Lindt, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 » Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
• 2000 » Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)