Family tree Weening » Gerrit van der Wijk (1902-1988)

Day of marriage September 17, 1921

• The temperature on September 17, 1921 was between 7.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
  • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

Day of death April 3, 1988

• The temperature on April 3, 1988 was between 0.2 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • April 18 » The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
  • May 6 » All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy.
  • July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
  • 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.
  • September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
  • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
• 1988 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1991 » Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1904)