Family tree De Kunder » Wilhelmus Johannes Wijers (1913-1990)

Day of marriage May 23, 1941

• The temperature on May 23, 1941 was between 9.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
  • March 27 » World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
  • May 20 » World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
  • June 3 » World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
  • December 10 » World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
  • December 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.

Day of death March 9, 1990

• The temperature on March 9, 1990 was between 6.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
  • March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
  • April 11 » Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
  • April 23 » Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • October 28 » Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
  • December 22 » Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.

Day of burial March 13, 1990

• The temperature on March 13, 1990 was between -1.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
  • February 12 » Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
  • April 7 » A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
  • May 17 » The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
  • June 19 » The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
  • December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1993 » C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 » Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)