Genealogieën Bex/Vromen/Overhof(f)/Herings » Jacobus Henricus (Sjaak) BEKX (1912-1996)

Day of marriage May 20, 1947

• The temperature on May 20, 1947 was between 5.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
  • November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
  • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

Day of death April 2, 1996

• The temperature on April 2, 1996 was between -5.6 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (53%). 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 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • February 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  • February 9 » Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
  • February 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
  • March 13 » The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
  • September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Juanito, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1954)
• 1994 » Betty Furness, American actress, consumer advocate, game show panelist, television journalist and television personality (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Marc Fitch, British historian and philanthropist (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese director and producer (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Rob Pilatus, American-German singer-songwriter (b. 1965)