Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Fennechien de Vries (1899-1992)

Day of marriage May 1, 1920

• The temperature on May 1, 1920 was between 3.3 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
  • January 19 » The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
  • March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
  • June 4 » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
  • June 11 » During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
  • July 11 » In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.

Day of death August 18, 1992

• The temperature on August 18, 1992 was between 10.9 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 6 » President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
  • January 22 » Space Shuttle program: the space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
  • February 29 » First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
  • March 1 » Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • April 5 » Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
  • November 11 » The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)
• 2001 » David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)
• 2002 » Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)