The temperature on May 10, 1961 was between 7.6 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
August 21 » American country music singer Patsy Cline returns to record producer Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's "Crazy", which would become her signature song.
September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Day of marriage December 17, 1982
The temperature on December 17, 1982 was between 0.3 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 19 » Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
June 13 » Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
July 9 » Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
July 20 » Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
October 8 » Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
October 28 » The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Day of death January 1, 1985
The temperature on January 1, 1985 was between 0.5 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
July 7 » Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.
December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Luke Broersma, "Broersma Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/broersma-family-tree/I13755.php : accessed April 30, 2025), "Kara Lynn Hopmann (1961-1985)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.