Database Van Broekhoven » Martin Joan Smit (1932-2013)

Day of marriage September 13, 1963

• The temperature on September 13, 1963 was between 10.8 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  • February 8 » The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
  • March 8 » The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
  • June 21 » Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
  • August 8 » The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
  • November 29 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

Day of death March 6, 2013

• The temperature on March 6, 2013 was between 4.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • May 25 » A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
  • July 7 » A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
  • August 8 » A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
  • September 2 » The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span.
  • November 19 » A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
  • December 14 » A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 » Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
• 2013 » Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.) (b. 1970)
• 2013 » Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2013 » W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (b. 1930)