Family tree Spenlau » John J Kramer (1923-2008)

Day of marriage October 1, 1949

• The temperature on October 1, 1949 was between 5.0 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
  • April 18 » The keel for the aircraft carrier USSUnited States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
  • June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • December 29 » KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

Day of death September 19, 2008

• The temperature on September 19, 2008 was between 3.9 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
  • March 23 » Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
  • May 25 » NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
  • July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
  • October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
  • November 10 » Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Martha Holmes, American photographer and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2008 » Earl Palmer, American rhythm and blues drummer (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (b. 1929)
• 2009 » Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (b. 1915)