Family tree Wernke » Johannes de Waal (1893-1994)

Day of marriage May 29, 1919

• The temperature on May 29, 1919 was between 5.8 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (80%). 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 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
  • March 2 » The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
  • October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Day of death February 6, 1994

• The temperature on February 6, 1994 was between 1.7 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • May 2 » A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
  • May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
  • July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
  • August 24 » Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
  • September 14 » The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
  • December 3 » The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Danny Thomas, American actor, producer, and humanitarian (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Salvador Luria, Italian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1943)
• 1994 » Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 1994 » Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1995 » James Merrill, American poet and playwright (b. 1926)