Database Schaap » Pieternella Johanna Maria "Nel" Kroon (1934-2012)

Day of marriage July 11, 1956

• The temperature on July 11, 1956 was between 12.6 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
  • September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
  • October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
  • October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
  • November 3 » Suez Crisis: The Khan Yunis killings by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians.
  • December 2 » The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.

Day of death January 23, 2012

• The temperature on January 23, 2012 was between 2.9 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • June 2 » Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
  • June 22 » A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
  • July 5 » The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020ft).
  • July 12 » Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
  • October 14 » Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
  • November 24 » A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.

Day of cremation January 27, 2012

• The temperature on January 27, 2012 was between 1.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • May 19 » Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
  • May 29 » A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
  • June 26 » The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
  • August 25 » Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
  • September 7 » Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
  • December 26 » China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

Source: Wikipedia

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