Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Petrus Wilhelmus "Peet" Pompe (1911-2001)

Day of marriage January 15, 1957

• The temperature on January 15, 1957 was between -2.6 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
  • March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
  • July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
  • November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
  • December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Day of death June 26, 2001

• The temperature on June 26, 2001 was between 12.4 °C and 28.6 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
  • May 1 » Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
  • June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • September 14 » Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
  • November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
  • December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
• 2002 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 2003 » Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
• 2003 » Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902)