Genealogy Van Houdt » Jacobus Willem "Koos" van Houdt (1930-2003)

Day of marriage December 21, 1954

• The temperature on December 21, 1954 was between 3.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
  • March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
  • May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
  • August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
  • September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
  • December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

Day of death August 27, 2003

• The temperature on August 27, 2003 was between 12.8 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
  • June 10 » The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
  • August 19 » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
  • November 12 » Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
  • December 14 » Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
  • December 24 » The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50kg of explosives at 3:55p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian politician (b. 1938)
• 2001 » Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2002 » Edwin Louis Cole, American religious leader and author (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Pierre Poujade, French soldier and politician (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2005 » Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek trumpet player and composer (b. 1922)