Database Langton / Lengton / Lington - Heil - Rahder » Sebastiaan "Bas" van Dongen (1925-2008)

Day of marriage January 11, 1950

• The temperature on January 11, 1950 was between 6.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • June 25 » The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
  • June 27 » The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
  • July 5 » Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
  • July 5 » Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
  • July 29 » Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
  • September 24 » The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.

Day of death April 15, 2008

• The temperature on April 15, 2008 was between -0.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • February 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
  • 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.
  • March 1 » The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
  • May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
  • June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
  • December 24 » The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Brant Parker, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Krister Stendahl, Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)
• 2009 » László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 2009 » Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (b. 1947)
• 2010 » Jack Herer, American author and activist (b. 1939)