Genealogy Kuijper » Nicolaas Johan (Co) Huipen (1933-1983)

Day of marriage April 20, 1960

• The temperature on April 20, 1960 was between 7.1 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
  • March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
  • May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
  • September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
  • November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
  • December 3 » The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.

Day of death March 23, 1983

• The temperature on March 23, 1983 was between 1.0 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 9.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
  • February 14 » United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
  • March 23 » Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
  • November 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
  • November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
  • December 7 » An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist and academic (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b. 1940)
• 1985 » Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Moshe Feinstein, American Orthodox Rabbi and posek (b. 1895)