Genealogy Van Tunen » Maria Clasina Bakkum (1905-1985)

Day of marriage May 28, 1936

• The temperature on May 28, 1936 was between 7.3 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
  • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
  • July 26 » King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
  • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

Day of death December 18, 1985

• The temperature on December 18, 1985 was between 6.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
  • September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
  • September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
  • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
  • October 7 » The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
  • December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

Day of burial December 21, 1985

• The temperature on December 21, 1985 was between 4.5 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
  • March 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
  • March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
  • October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during "Operation Wooden Leg".
  • November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
  • December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)