Genealogy Van der Bijl - 41 stammen » Jan van der Bijl (1927-2008)

Day of marriage September 11, 1947

• The temperature on September 11, 1947 was between 10.1 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
  • February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
  • April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
  • July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
  • September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
  • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

Day of death November 9, 2008

• The temperature on November 9, 2008 was between 8.8 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (21%). 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, 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.
  • June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
  • July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
  • August 8 » A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
  • October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
  • December 9 » The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (b. 1941)
• 2008 » Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
• 2008 » Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
• 2008 » Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (b. 1932)