Mannen van Croy » Petrus Maria "Piet" Crooijmans (1923-2011)

Day of marriage September 23, 1954

• The temperature on September 23, 1954 was between 4.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
  • April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
  • June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
  • September 9 » The 6.7 M_w  Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
  • November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
  • December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

Day of death March 22, 2011

• The temperature on March 22, 2011 was between -1.2 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 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.
  • May 16 » STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
  • June 1 » Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.
  • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
  • September 17 » Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
  • November 23 » Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2010 » Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 2010 » James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (b. 1920)
• 2011 » Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2012 » John Payton, American lawyer and activist (b. 1946)