Koning Family Tree » Hillechina Margaretha Hekman (1923-1999)

Day of marriage May 19, 1950

• The temperature on May 19, 1950 was between 7.3 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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)
• 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 year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
  • January 21 » American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
  • February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
  • June 24 » Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
  • July 11 » Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
  • September 15 » Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.

Day of death February 20, 1999

• The temperature on February 20, 1999 was between 3.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 25 » A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
  • March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
  • November 12 » The 7.2 M_w  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.
  • December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
• 1999 » Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
• 2000 » Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2001 » Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)