Ancestors Alex Verbeek » Maria Adriana Jacoba "Riet" VERBEEK (1932-2016)

Day of marriage September 4, 1959

• The temperature on September 4, 1959 was between 10.7 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
  • February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
  • June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
  • June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
  • June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
  • October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.

Day of death May 16, 2016

• The temperature on May 16, 2016 was between 4.0 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
  • March 22 » Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
  • April 22 » The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
  • June 23 » The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
  • October 8 » In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
  • December 22 » A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1943)
• 2014 » Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (b. 1933)
• 2014 » Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928)
• 2015 » Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (b. 1973)