Family tree Van Rijn » Maria Mooij (1895-1994)

Day of marriage August 31, 1916

• The temperature on August 31, 1916 was between 10.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
  • September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
  • December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Day of death August 24, 1994

• The temperature on August 24, 1994 was between 13.9 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
  • March 23 » A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
  • September 12 » Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
  • October 27 » Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
  • November 13 » In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
  • December 3 » The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 1990 » Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 1991 » Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (b. 1904)
• 1992 » André Donner, Dutch academic and judge (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1998 » E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)