Family tree Weening » Pieter de Groot (1910-1996)

Day of marriage August 17, 1937

• The temperature on August 17, 1937 was between 12.2 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
  • April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
  • May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

Day of death December 30, 1996

• The temperature on December 30, 1996 was between -5.7 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 9 » Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
  • April 3 » Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
  • June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
  • July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
  • July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
  • October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1995 » Doris Grau, American voice actor and script supervisor (b. 1924)
• 1995 » Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905)