Database Van Broekhoven » Theodoor Johannes de Grauw (1920-2011)

Day of death November 4, 2011

• The temperature on November 4, 2011 was between 12.4 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.
  • January 25 » The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
  • July 21 » NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
  • July 22 » Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
  • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
  • September 29 » The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.

Day of burial November 11, 2011

• The temperature on November 11, 2011 was between 4.8 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
  • March 11 » An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130km (81mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
  • May 21 » Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
  • July 10 » Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
  • September 20 » The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
  • December 13 » A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.

Source: Wikipedia

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