Parentage of Bessel Hendriksen » Jan van den Hoorn (1927-2008)

Day of marriage April 29, 1954

• The temperature on April 29, 1954 was between 0.3 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • January 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
  • January 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
  • February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
  • February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
  • May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
  • November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

Day of death January 21, 2008

• The temperature on January 21, 2008 was between 8.7 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 11.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 14 » A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
  • May 30 » Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
  • 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.
  • November 27 » XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
  • December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.

Day of burial January 25, 2008

• The temperature on January 25, 2008 was between 2.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • February 23 » A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
  • February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
  • May 29 » A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
  • July 21 » Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
  • October 7 » Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
  • December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.

Source: Wikipedia

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