Berkemeijer Genealogie » Helen Josephina Maria Gockel (1933-2008)

Day of marriage May 11, 1954

• The temperature on May 11, 1954 was between 14.2 °C and 28.9 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
  • March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
  • August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
  • November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

Day of death March 7, 2008

• The temperature on March 7, 2008 was between 2.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
  • June 26 » A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
  • September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  • September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
  • October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
  • November 26 » Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation, and the ship, Queen Elizabeth 2 is out of service, and docks in Dubai.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2005 » Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
• 2005 » John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2006 » Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2006 » Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Ronnie Wells, American singer and educator (b. 1943)