Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Virginia May Irwin (1921-2008)

Day of marriage November 15, 1986

• The temperature on November 15, 1986 was between 5.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily 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 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 Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
  • March 3 » The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
  • March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
  • April 2 » Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
  • April 29 » A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
  • October 27 » The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

Day of death December 12, 2008

• The temperature on December 12, 2008 was between -0.8 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily 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 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.
  • April 3 » Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
  • August 13 » Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
  • August 30 » A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
  • September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
  • October 29 » Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.

Source: Wikipedia

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