Family tree Van Eijk » Wietze Antonius Tiemen "Wietze" Oord (1896-1988)

Day of marriage April 12, 1922

• The temperature on April 12, 1922 was between 3.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (56%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • June 17 » Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
  • July 1 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
  • September 13 » The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
  • November 14 » The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
  • November 15 » At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • December 7 » The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.

Day of death October 28, 1988

• The temperature on October 28, 1988 was between 4.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
  • March 17 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
  • August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
  • September 12 » Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  • December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1986 » John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
• 1987 » André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896)
• 1989 » Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
• 1993 » Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)