Pedigree Plomp » Willem Frederik Wijkamp (1906-1995)

Day of marriage April 24, 1935

• The temperature on April 24, 1935 was between 6.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 12.8 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
  • July 24 » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee.
  • July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
  • August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
  • October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
  • December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.

Day of death November 18, 1995

• The temperature on November 18, 1995 was between -1.2 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
  • February 3 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • May 1 » Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
  • September 22 » An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
  • October 16 » The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
  • December 20 » American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Gustáv Husák, Slovak lawyer and politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra) (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Peter Ledger, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1945)
• 1995 » Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (b. 1936)
• 1999 » Paul Bowles, American composer and author (b. 1910)