Database Van Broekhoven » Adrianus Antonius van der Loo (1927-2015)

Day of marriage July 1, 1954

• The temperature on July 1, 1954 was between 6.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
  • 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.
  • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
  • October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.

Day of death August 24, 2015

• The temperature on August 24, 2015 was between 13.3 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • July 20 » A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
  • August 16 » More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
  • August 16 » Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibl, Pegunungan Bintang, killing all 54 people on board.
  • August 26 » Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
  • October 1 » A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
  • December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman (b. 1928)
• 2014 » Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Charlie Coffey, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Joseph F. Traub, German-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Justin Wilson, English race car driver (b. 1978)
• 2016 » Walter Scheel, German politician, 4th President of Germany (b. 1919)