Familie Philippo - Fortgens » Adriaan Fortgens (1913-1985)

Day of marriage August 16, 1952

• The temperature on August 16, 1952 was between 12.1 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
  • March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
  • April 15 » First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
  • August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
  • September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
  • October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

Day of death July 19, 1985

• The temperature on July 19, 1985 was between 12.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily 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 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
  • April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
  • April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
  • June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
• 1984 » Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1913)