Family tree Steenhagen » Derk Jan "Jan" Schothans (1886-1983)

Day of marriage February 8, 1913

• The temperature on February 8, 1913 was between 2.7 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
  • May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
  • July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
  • December 1 » Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.

Day of death January 6, 1983

• The temperature on January 6, 1983 was between 5.0 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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 year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
  • February 28 » The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
  • March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
  • March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
  • May 26 » The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
  • November 7 » United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.

Day of burial January 10, 1983

• The temperature on January 10, 1983 was between 2.5 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly 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 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 year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
  • February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
  • May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
  • September 27 » Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
  • October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
  • December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)