Family tree Weening » Anne Slopsma (1892-1985)

Day of marriage July 7, 1927

• The temperature on July 7, 1927 was between 16.0 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
  • May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.

Day of death February 18, 1985

• The temperature on February 18, 1985 was between -9.8 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -5.5 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • August 7 » Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
  • October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
  • November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
  • November 19 » Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
• 1989 » Mildred Burke, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)