Family tree Klavers » Willem Sanders (1895-1990)

Day of marriage September 3, 1920

• The temperature on September 3, 1920 was between 8.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • June 11 » During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
  • October 14 » Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
  • November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Day of death March 18, 1990

• The temperature on March 18, 1990 was between 6.2 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (87%). 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 year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
  • March 21 » Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
  • April 7 » Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
  • May 30 » Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
  • August 23 » Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
  • November 17 » Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
• 1993 » Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)