Family tree Crapts » Cornelia "Corrie" Ermans (1898-1983)

Day of marriage February 17, 1928

• The temperature on February 17, 1928 was between 4.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

Day of death February 12, 1983

• The temperature on February 12, 1983 was between -4.4 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
  • February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
  • July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
  • July 24 » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
  • October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
  • December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Day of burial February 15, 1983

• The temperature on February 15, 1983 was between -3.4 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 24 » A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
  • April 25 » Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
  • May 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
  • July 24 » George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
  • December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and activist (b. 1913)
• 1982 » Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (b. 1902)
• 1983 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Anna Anderson, Polish-American woman, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (b. 1924)