Family tree Mijjer » Jan Wouter Koning (1912-1986)

Day of marriage September 15, 1937

• The temperature on September 15, 1937 was between 6.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 27 » In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
  • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
  • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
  • December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Day of death June 15, 1986

• The temperature on June 15, 1986 was between 13.3 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
  • April 15 » The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
  • October 9 » The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
  • October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
  • November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
  • November 26 » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Meredith Willson, American playwright, composer, and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
• 1989 » Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
• 1991 » Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1991 » Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1898)