Genealogy Beekman » Antonius Beekmans (1922-1996)

Day of marriage August 17, 1955

• The temperature on August 17, 1955 was between 13.1 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
  • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
  • June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
  • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
  • November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
  • December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

Day of death September 26, 1996

• The temperature on September 26, 1996 was between 5.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
  • September 27 » Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
  • November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
  • November 7 » NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
  • December 27 » Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
• 1996 » Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
• 1998 » Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1937)
• 2000 » Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)