Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Abraham van der Windt (1908-1988)

Day of marriage October 15, 1939

• The temperature on October 15, 1939 was between 9.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 » Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
  • March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
  • 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.
  • May 22 » World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
  • November 26 » Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.

Day of death January 31, 1988

• The temperature on January 31, 1988 was between 2.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
  • March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
  • April 18 » The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
  • May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
  • November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1985 » Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1989 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)