Database Schaap » Hendrika Jacoba "Hennie" van der Horst (1935-2016)

Day of marriage November 3, 1954

• The temperature on November 3, 1954 was between 3.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
  • September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
  • September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
  • September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

Day of death January 7, 2016

• The temperature on January 7, 2016 was between 3.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
  • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
  • January 16 » Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
  • February 11 » A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
  • June 12 » Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
  • December 22 » A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (b. 1936)
• 2016 » Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2016 » John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947)
• 2016 » Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938)
• 2016 » Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)
• 2016 » Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936)