Genealogy family Fokker » Herman Gerrits (1934-2014)

Day of marriage August 24, 1962

• The temperature on August 24, 1962 was between 14.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
  • May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
  • August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
  • September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
  • September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
  • December 2 » Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.

Day of death March 18, 2014

• The temperature on March 18, 2014 was between 7.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
  • March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
  • April 22 » More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
  • September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
  • September 28 » The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
  • October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.

Source: Wikipedia

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