De families Lasker (Lassche), Grooten, van der Helm en van der Schuur » Jacobus "Ko" Kok (1928-2013)

Day of marriage June 11, 1953

• The temperature on June 11, 1953 was between 9.6 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
  • May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
  • June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
  • August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
  • September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.

Day of death December 29, 2013

• The temperature on December 29, 2013 was between 2.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • February 8 » A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
  • April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
  • June 11 » Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It reopened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
  • August 14 » Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
  • October 15 » The 7.2 M_w Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
  • November 13 » 4 World Trade Center officially opens.

Day of cremation January 3, 2014

• The temperature on January 3, 2014 was between 5.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
  • March 27 » Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
  • April 2 » A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
  • May 24 » At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
  • December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

Source: Wikipedia

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