Family tree Martens IJsselstreek » Willemina Bosman (1894-1987)

Day of marriage February 19, 1916

• The temperature on February 19, 1916 was between 0.6 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
  • November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
  • November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.

Day of death May 27, 1987

• The temperature on May 27, 1987 was between 8.0 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
  • May 5 » Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
  • June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
  • July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
  • August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
  • October 7 » Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1987 » John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1988 » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908)