Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Jan Kieft (1927-2011)

Day of marriage June 21, 1956

• The temperature on June 21, 1956 was between 8.3 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
  • April 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
  • September 13 » The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
  • October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
  • November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
  • December 31 » The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.

Day of death May 23, 2011

• The temperature on May 23, 2011 was between 10.3 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1 » After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
  • July 8 » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
  • November 26 » The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
  • December 31 » Samoa and Tokelau skip the day of December 30, 2011 as they jump to the other side of International Date Line, changing their timezones.

Day of burial November 28, 2011

• The temperature on November 28, 2011 was between 0.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 27 » Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
  • March 12 » A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
  • September 11 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opens on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
  • September 18 » The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
  • November 12 » A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
  • December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2009 » Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (b. 1946)
• 2010 » José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1972)
• 2010 » Simon Monjack, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1970)
• 2011 » Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
• 2012 » Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942)