Family tree Verloop » Nelly Helise Hortense DELARRE (1903-1985)

Day of marriage August 20, 1926

• The temperature on August 20, 1926 was between 13.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
  • June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

Day of death July 4, 1985

• The temperature on July 4, 1985 was between 13.5 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
  • March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
  • April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
  • June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
  • October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
  • December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1986 » Flor Peeters, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critique musical and physicist (b. 1933)
• 1988 » Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)