Family tree Posthuma » Maria Rosina "Marie" Kegels (1903-1988)

Day of marriage August 26, 1931

• The temperature on August 26, 1931 was between 8.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
  • March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
  • October 17 » Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
  • November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
  • November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

Day of death December 19, 1988

• The temperature on December 19, 1988 was between 5.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
  • March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
  • July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
  • August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
  • October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
  • December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.

Day of burial December 23, 1988

• The temperature on December 23, 1988 was between 8.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
  • March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
  • April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
  • May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1987 » August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)
• 1988 » Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (b. 1902)