Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Geert Hendrik - Hendrik Menzen (1923-2001)

Day of marriage October 24, 1950

• The temperature on October 24, 1950 was between -0.7 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (76%). 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)
• 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 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • February 9 » Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
  • June 1 » The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
  • July 5 » Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
  • August 18 » Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
  • September 15 » Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
  • October 11 » CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Day of death July 27, 2001

• The temperature on July 27, 2001 was between 15.8 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • February 18 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
  • April 1 » An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
  • July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
  • July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
  • November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

Day of burial July 31, 2001

• The temperature on July 31, 2001 was between 14.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
  • February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
  • February 15 » The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
  • April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
  • October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
  • November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

Source: Wikipedia

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