Family tree Jonker » Grietje Snijders (1898-1991)

Day of marriage May 3, 1924

• The temperature on May 3, 1924 was between 6.1 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".

Day of death October 29, 1991

• The temperature on October 29, 1991 was between 4.3 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (19%). 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • February 7 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
  • June 15 » In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
  • October 16 » George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
  • October 18 » The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
  • December 2 » Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
  • December 5 » Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.

Day of cremation November 4, 1991

• The temperature on November 4, 1991 was between 4.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 22.6 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.
  • May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
  • August 24 » Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
  • September 6 » The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
  • October 3 » Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • November 28 » South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, (b. 1924)