Family tree Van Rijn » Leonardus Jacobus van der Meer (1912-1996)

Day of marriage August 11, 1937

• The temperature on August 11, 1937 was between 10.8 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
  • September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
  • October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.

Day of death June 21, 1996

• The temperature on June 21, 1996 was between 7.2 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
  • April 18 » In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
  • June 4 » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
  • June 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
  • July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
  • September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
• 1997 » Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union leader (b. 1900)
• 1997 » Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 1998 » Al Campanis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)
• 1998 » Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (b. 1917)