Family tree Jan Werkman » Henderika Wegman (1898-1990)

Day of marriage May 29, 1920

• The temperature on May 29, 1920 was between 11.0 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
  • January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • April 23 » The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
  • May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
  • December 19 » King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.

Day of death October 13, 1990

• The temperature on October 13, 1990 was between 11.4 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly 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 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.
  • March 28 » United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
  • April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
  • May 4 » Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
  • June 1 » Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
  • August 23 » Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
  • October 28 » Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.

Day of cremation October 18, 1990

• The temperature on October 18, 1990 was between 13.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The 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.
  • June 19 » The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
  • August 8 » Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
  • August 10 » The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
  • August 28 » An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
  • September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
  • October 13 » Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (b. 1929)
• 1987 » Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet and author (b. 1958)
• 1987 » Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Hans Namuth, German-American photographer (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 » James Marshall, American author and illustrator (b. 1942)