Database Schaap » Johannes Hoving (1923-2014)

Day of marriage December 14, 1949

• The temperature on December 14, 1949 was between -0.4 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • March 30 » Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
  • May 20 » In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  • September 4 » The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
  • September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
  • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.

Day of death December 16, 2014

• The temperature on December 16, 2014 was between 1.8 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
  • March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
  • September 16 » The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
  • September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
  • October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
  • December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.

Day of cremation December 24, 2014

• The temperature on December 24, 2014 was between 6.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
  • February 22 » President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
  • August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
  • October 1 » A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
  • October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
  • December 10 » Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein was killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » James Flint, English commander (b. 1913)
• 2013 » Marta Russell, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1951)
• 2013 » Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Martin Brasier, English paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1947)
• 2014 » Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (b. 1955)
• 2015 » Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (b. 1927)