Family tree Weening » Jannes Wilpstra (1900-1988)

Day of marriage May 20, 1927

• The temperature on May 20, 1927 was between 3.2 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

Day of death September 17, 1988

• The temperature on September 17, 1988 was between 11.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
  • March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
  • April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
  • June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
  • August 21 » The 6.9 M_w  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Richard Basehart, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Harry Locke, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Zino Francescatti, French violinist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Roger Wagner, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)