Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Petrus Johannes "Jan" Warmerdam (1924-2013)

Day of marriage May 22, 1954

• The temperature on May 22, 1954 was between 6.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
  • August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
  • August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
  • November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

Day of death March 22, 2013

• The temperature on March 22, 2013 was between -2.9 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • March 13 » The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
  • April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • April 22 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
  • June 30 » Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
  • November 21 » Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.
  • November 24 » Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2013 » Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Derek Watkins, English trumpet player and composer (b. 1945)
• 2013 » James Nabrit, American lawyer and academic (b. 1932)
• 2013 » Ray Williams, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2013 » Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (b. 1951)