Family tree Weening » Hendrik Boomsma (1907-1986)

Day of marriage June 16, 1928

• The temperature on June 16, 1928 was between 6.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

Day of death November 15, 1986

• The temperature on November 15, 1986 was between 5.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 3 » The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
  • April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
  • May 7 » Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
  • May 25 » The Hands Across America event takes place.
  • August 31 » Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
  • November 26 » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1983 » John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)
• 1983 » John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1985 » Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1988 » Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)