Family tree Dijkstra » Sijbout (Sip Siepke) Dijkstra (1923-1984)

Day of marriage July 18, 1952

• The temperature on July 18, 1952 was between 13.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • January 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
  • March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
  • April 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
  • September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
  • October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
  • November 29 » Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

Day of death June 20, 1984

• The temperature on June 20, 1984 was between 13.5 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
  • June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
  • June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
  • August 1 » Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
  • September 12 » Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
  • October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

Day of burial June 25, 1984

• The temperature on June 25, 1984 was between 11.2 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
  • September 18 » Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
  • September 20 » A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
  • October 11 » Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
  • November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
• 1995 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 1997 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)