Sherren Family Tree » Jantje van Dijk (1908-1990)

Day of marriage May 17, 1932

• The temperature on May 17, 1932 was between 9.5 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
  • May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
  • July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
  • September 5 » The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
  • December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
  • December 18 » The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.

Day of death May 31, 1990

• The temperature on May 31, 1990 was between 6.9 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
  • January 4 » In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
  • January 13 » Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
  • February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
  • March 29 » The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
  • April 12 » Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
• 1987 » John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1989 » C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and historian (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Uzay Heparı, Turkish actor, producer, and composer (b. 1969)