Genealogy Slot » Theodora Helena (Dora) Jonker (1927-2015)

Day of marriage April 15, 1952

• The temperature on April 15, 1952 was between 9.9 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
  • April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
  • June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
  • June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
  • July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
  • November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.

Day of death December 21, 2015

• The temperature on December 21, 2015 was between 8.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • February 22 » A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
  • June 17 » Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • August 16 » More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
  • September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
  • December 4 » A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
  • December 7 » The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
• 2013 » John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
• 2014 » Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
• 2017 » Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)