Genealogieën Bex/Vromen/Overhof(f)/Herings » Albertus Johannes (Bert) BEXKENS (1924-2011)

Day of marriage April 30, 1951

• The temperature on April 30, 1951 was between -0.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 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 year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
  • April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
  • July 4 » William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
  • September 1 » The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
  • November 2 » Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.
  • December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.

Day of death August 8, 2011

• The temperature on August 8, 2011 was between 13.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • March 11 » An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130km (81mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
  • March 15 » Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
  • April 24 » WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
  • May 2 » Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • August 23 » A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200million–$300million USD.
  • September 7 » A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2009 » Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
• 2010 » Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2012 » Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1944)