Family tree Naessens » Henri "Rik" Heirbaut (1921-2014)

Day of marriage March 27, 1948

• The temperature on March 27, 1948 was between 3.1 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
  • July 1 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
  • July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
  • July 16 » The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
  • August 3 » Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
  • August 25 » The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

Day of death February 28, 2014

• The temperature on February 28, 2014 was between 1.9 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
  • April 14 » Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
  • May 24 » At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
  • June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
  • June 27 » At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.

Day of burial March 8, 2014

• The temperature on March 8, 2014 was between -1.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
  • April 14 » Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
  • May 24 » At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
  • September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
  • October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • October 27 » Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Neil McCorkell, English cricketer and coach (b. 1912)
• 2014 » Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Lee Lorch, American mathematician and activist (b. 1915)
• 2015 » Alex Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2015 » Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1923)