Parentage of Gisbert Jansen Snapper » Hendrikje van den Hoorn (1902-1988)

Day of marriage July 9, 1937

• The temperature on July 9, 1937 was between 8.2 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

Day of death January 8, 1988

• The temperature on January 8, 1988 was between 1.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
  • August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
  • August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
  • September 29 » NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
  • October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
  • December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

Day of burial January 13, 1988

• The temperature on January 13, 1988 was between 1.1 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
  • April 4 » Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
  • July 3 » The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
  • September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
  • October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
  • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1986 » Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906)
• 1990 » Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)
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