Genealogy van de families Van Elswijck, De Roo, Wilhelm en Wolters » Hendrikus Cornelis Maria van ELSWIJK (1936-2004)

Day of marriage July 3, 1968

• The temperature on July 3, 1968 was between 8.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
  • April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
  • October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
  • November 26 » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
  • December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

Day of death February 28, 2004

• The temperature on February 28, 2004 was between -7.8 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 14 » In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
  • February 27 » A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
  • February 29 » Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
  • May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
  • September 30 » The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat itself is retired.
  • October 14 » Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian general and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian sergeant (b. 1982)
• 2004 » Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (b. 1941)