Family tree Van Weeghel » Hendrik Kwakkel (1909-1990)

Day of marriage October 5, 1939

• The temperature on October 5, 1939 was between 5.7 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • March 15 » Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
  • April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
  • April 18 » Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.
  • September 9 » Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
  • September 10 » World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
  • December 14 » Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

Day of death November 25, 1990

• The temperature on November 25, 1990 was between 2.1 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • March 19 » The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
  • March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
  • April 24 » Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
  • June 30 » East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
  • October 5 » After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Franz Hildebrandt, German pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
• 1989 » Alva R. Fitch, American general (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
• 1991 » Eleanor Audley, American actress and voice artist (b. 1905)