Family tree Van Weeghel » Cornelia Nijeboer (1903-1985)

Day of marriage September 20, 1928

• The temperature on September 20, 1928 was between 3.8 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death March 20, 1985

• The temperature on March 20, 1985 was between -1.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
  • May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
  • July 13 » Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
  • September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
  • 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.

Day of burial March 23, 1985

• The temperature on March 23, 1985 was between 4.6 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
  • March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
  • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
  • July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
  • 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.
  • December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)