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.
  • July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
  • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
  • November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

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.
  • March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
  • 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.
  • August 10 » Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
  • October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
  • November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
  • December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

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)