Family tree Weening » Sjoerd Kloostra (1906-1985)

Day of marriage November 23, 1929

• The temperature on November 23, 1929 was between 7.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
  • December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Day of death February 21, 1985

• The temperature on February 21, 1985 was between -0.2 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • February 16 » Hezbollah is founded.
  • February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
  • May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
  • July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
  • September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
  • November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)