Genealogy Meeldijk » Wilhelmina Johanna GOEDKNEGT (1930-2011)

Day of marriage October 28, 1953

• The temperature on October 28, 1953 was between 8.6 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
  • August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
  • October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
  • December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

Day of death September 30, 2011

• The temperature on September 30, 2011 was between 10.5 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • April 19 » Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
  • April 27 » The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
  • May 2 » An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
  • June 1 » Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.
  • December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
  • December 31 » Samoa and Tokelau skip the day of December 30, 2011 as they jump to the other side of International Date Line, changing their timezones.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2011 » Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (b. 1971)
• 2011 » Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2012 » Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (b. 1917)
• 2012 » Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1948)
• 2012 » Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (b. 1922)