Genealogy Slot » Jan Nicolaas (Jan) Jonker (1921-2013)

Day of marriage January 17, 1947

• The temperature on January 17, 1947 was between 2.7 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.

Day of death April 7, 2013

• The temperature on April 7, 2013 was between -2.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
  • April 23 » At least 28 people are killed and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
  • August 9 » Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
  • August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
  • September 16 » A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.
  • December 15 » The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.

Source: Wikipedia

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