Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Adrianus Nicolaus van de WOUW (1887-1957)

Day of marriage May 19, 1920

• The temperature on May 19, 1920 was between 8.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
  • April 25 » At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
  • May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
  • May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
  • August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.

Day of death April 8, 1957

• The temperature on April 8, 1957 was between 1.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
  • January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
  • January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
  • September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Joseph Carrodus, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)