Family tree Jan Werkman » Martinus Hubertus Scherpenhuizen (1902-1998)

Day of marriage January 27, 1926

• The temperature on January 27, 1926 was between 4.4 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death April 8, 1998

• The temperature on April 8, 1998 was between 4.0 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
  • November 20 » The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
  • December 11 » Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
  • December 19 » President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
• 1996 » León Klimovsky, Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Mick Young, Australian politician (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2000 » František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)