Family tree of Vreeswijk » Agidia Alida "Gidea" van Vreeswijk (1905-1990)

Christening day December 17, 1905

• The temperature on December 17, 1905 was between -1.0 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Day of marriage September 12, 1935

• The temperature on September 12, 1935 was between 4.6 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
  • April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
  • September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
  • September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
  • October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
  • November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.

Day of death March 16, 1990

• The temperature on March 16, 1990 was between 1.7 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  • March 20 » Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
  • July 2 » In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
  • August 28 » An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
  • November 13 » In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
  • November 28 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.

Day of burial March 21, 1990

• The temperature on March 21, 1990 was between 11.0 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • June 2 » The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
  • August 23 » Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
  • September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
  • October 28 » Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
  • December 22 » Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Jigger Statz, American baseball player (b.1897)
• 1988 » Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1990 » Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Chris Austin, American country singer (b .1964)
• 1991 » Jean Bellette, Australian artist (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)