Family tree Witmer » Gerardus Hendricus Leonardus Witmaar (1895-1993)

Day of marriage May 16, 1928

• The temperature on May 16, 1928 was between 1.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.

Day of death October 7, 1993

• The temperature on October 7, 1993 was between 9.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly 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 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 year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
  • February 8 » General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
  • February 28 » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
  • March 12 » Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
  • March 24 » Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
  • April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)
• 1993 » Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)