Genealogische verzameling Van Kuijen » Antoon van KUIJEN (1920-2005)

Day of marriage June 11, 1947

• The temperature on June 11, 1947 was between 8.2 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
  • February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
  • February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
  • March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
  • July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

Day of death October 24, 2005

• The temperature on October 24, 2005 was between 9.3 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 19.0 mm of rain during 12.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 15 » ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
  • May 13 » Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
  • July 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
  • September 16 » The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
  • September 24 » Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2005 » José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (b. 1932)
• 2005 » Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
• 2005 » Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)