Kelson Burbank Genealogy » Helen Harriet Vickie" Hooper Johnston II (1943-2013)

Day of marriage March 10, 1959

• The temperature on March 10, 1959 was between 1.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
  • March 10 » Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
  • March 28 » The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
  • August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
  • September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
  • December 3 » The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

Day of death March 16, 2013

• The temperature on March 16, 2013 was between 2.7 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 15 » A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
  • April 19 » Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
  • April 24 » A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
  • April 30 » Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
  • July 20 » Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
  • December 9 » At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939)
• 2013 » José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (b. 1925)
• 2013 » Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (b. 1952)
• 2013 » Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (b. 1914)
• 2013 » Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (b. 1986)