Family tree Kools, Arnold, van Vessem, van Vugt » Anna Maria Catharina de Hoon (1907-1999)

Day of marriage April 16, 1927

• The temperature on April 16, 1927 was between 2.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
  • November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.

Day of death August 26, 1999

• The temperature on August 26, 1999 was between 16.3 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (45%). 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • June 9 » Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
  • June 10 » Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
  • August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
  • November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)
• 1998 » Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
• 2000 » Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 2001 » Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)