1001 Stambomen en vele Hollandgänger van Johan Scholte » Johannes (Joop) Meevers Scholte (1896-1985)

Day of marriage August 25, 1920

• The temperature on August 25, 1920 was between 7.9 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
  • August 18 » The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
  • August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
  • September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

Day of death June 22, 1985

• The temperature on June 22, 1985 was between 10.5 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
  • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
  • October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
  • November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
  • November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
  • December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Day of burial June 26, 1985

• The temperature on June 26, 1985 was between 9.5 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
  • July 7 » Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
  • July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
  • September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
  • October 4 » The Free Software Foundation is founded.
  • November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1979 » Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b. 1899)
• 1988 » Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
• 1990 » Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)