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.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • April 28 » Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
  • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
  • August 26 » The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
  • November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

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.
  • March 2 » Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
  • 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.
  • July 7 » The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
  • September 12 » Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
  • October 2 » Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
  • December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.

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)