Genealogiebestand Heemkundekring Loon op 't Sandt » Joanna Maria "Jo" Boons (1924-2016)

Day of marriage October 4, 1949

• The temperature on October 4, 1949 was between 6.8 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
  • April 18 » The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect.
  • May 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.

Day of death February 19, 2016

• The temperature on February 19, 2016 was between 1.2 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
  • March 16 » A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54.
  • March 19 » Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
  • September 29 » Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
  • November 2 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
  • December 10 » Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Harold Johnson, American boxer (b. 1928)
• 2015 » Nirad Mohapatra, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2016 » Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (b. 1959)
• 2016 » Harper Lee, American author (b. 1926)
• 2016 » Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
• 2016 » Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (b. 1932)