Familiestamboom Blokland » Pieter Willem Rijkus Blokland (1942-1999)

Day of marriage November 7, 1967

• The temperature on November 7, 1967 was between -0.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 14 » The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
  • May 1 » Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
  • May 20 » The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • June 10 » The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
  • June 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
  • August 13 » Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.

Day of death January 18, 1999

• The temperature on January 18, 1999 was between 1.5 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
  • April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
  • May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
  • July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
  • August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
  • December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Day of burial January 23, 1999

• The temperature on January 23, 1999 was between -2.9 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
  • March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
  • May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
  • May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
  • June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
  • October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• 1996 » N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)