Family tree Van Apeldoorn » Jennigje Scheffer (1946-2008)

Day of marriage September 19, 1969

• The temperature on September 19, 1969 was between 5.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • May 10 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
  • May 17 » Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
  • July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
  • August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • September 25 » The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
  • November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

Day of death March 17, 2008

• The temperature on March 17, 2008 was between 0.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
  • June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
  • July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
  • August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
  • August 20 » Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
  • September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

Day of burial March 22, 2008

• The temperature on March 22, 2008 was between -1 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • May 29 » A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
  • June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
  • August 13 » Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
  • September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
  • September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
  • November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (b. 1913)
• 2007 » John Backus, American mathematician and computer scientist, designed Fortran (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Roger Bennett, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1959)
• 2008 » Roland Arnall, French-American businessman and diplomat, 63rd United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
• 2009 » Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian television host and politician (b. 1937)