Sluzigers (e.a.) » Hendrik Visscher (1912-1994)

Day of marriage February 17, 1939

• The temperature on February 17, 1939 was between -1.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (53%). 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
  • March 2 » Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
  • April 10 » Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.
  • June 12 » Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
  • September 10 » World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
  • December 27 » The 7.8 M_w  Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.

Day of death May 16, 1994

• The temperature on May 16, 1994 was between 7.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
  • May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
  • June 1 » Republic of South Africa becomes a Commonwealth republic.
  • July 18 » The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
  • December 11 » First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Day of burial May 20, 1994

• The temperature on May 20, 1994 was between 7.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 18.6 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
  • March 21 » The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
  • April 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
  • May 7 » Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
  • June 23 » NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
  • November 20 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
• 1997 » Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)