Family tree Weening » Benjamin de Vries (1912-1988)

Day of marriage May 18, 1935

• The temperature on May 18, 1935 was between 0.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 11.7 mm of rain during 11.0 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
  • June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
  • June 12 » A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
  • June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
  • July 24 » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee.
  • September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

Day of death February 29, 1988

• The temperature on February 29, 1988 was between 0.4 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
  • May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
  • July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
  • October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
  • December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
  • December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Florence P. Dwyer, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Yigal Allon, Israeli general and politician, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Ludwik Starski, Polish screenwriter and songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Sidney Harmon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Ruth Pitter, English poet and author (b. 1897)
• 1996 » Wes Farrell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)