Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Lloyd B. Blackburn (1932-2005)

Day of marriage November 21, 1953

• The temperature on November 21, 1953 was between 7.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
  • August 19 » Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
  • November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

Day of death December 2, 2005

• The temperature on December 2, 2005 was between 0.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 27 » Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
  • May 16 » Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
  • July 23 » Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
  • August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
  • August 17 » Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
  • October 29 » Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Alan Davidson, British soldier, historian, and author (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian convicted drug trafficker (b. 1980)
• 2005 » William P. Lawrence, American admiral and pilot (b. 1930)
• 2006 » Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)