Genealogy Wiebus » Alida Catharina Visser (1899-1993)

Day of marriage January 14, 1926

• The temperature on January 14, 1926 was between -9.9 °C and -6.4 °C and averaged -8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (45%). 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
  • May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death August 11, 1993

• The temperature on August 11, 1993 was between 7.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
  • March 24 » Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
  • April 27 » Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
  • May 5 » Three eight-year-old boys are murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, Ultimately leading to the conviction of the West Memphis Three.
  • July 9 » The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
  • August 9 » The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » John Meillon, Australian actor (b. 1934)
• 1991 » J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
• 1996 » Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)