Family tree Eilander » Elsje Sneeloper (1896-1985)

Day of marriage September 6, 1917

• The temperature on September 6, 1917 was between 11.2 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
  • June 23 » In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
  • October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
  • November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
  • November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
  • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Day of death September 23, 1985

• The temperature on September 23, 1985 was between 9.8 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
  • June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
  • August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • November 19 » Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)
• 1979 » Catherine Lacey, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1981 » Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (b. 1912)
• 1992 » Ivar Ivask, Estonian poet and scholar (b. 1927)