Bidprentjesverzameling Stichting De Oude Schoenendoos » Martinus Gertrudis Rongen (1935-2001)

Day of marriage January 9, 1962

• The temperature on January 9, 1962 was between 2.4 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
  • June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
  • July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
  • August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.

Day of death October 21, 2001

• The temperature on October 21, 2001 was between 12.2 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
  • April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
  • August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
  • October 22 » Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
  • November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
  • November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

Day of burial October 25, 2001

• The temperature on October 25, 2001 was between 8.3 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
  • January 26 » The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
  • May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
  • September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
  • November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
  • November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
• 1999 » Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1969)
• 2003 » Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
• 2003 » Luis A. Ferré, Puerto Rican engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1904)