Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Margaretha - Griet Cramer (1917-1999)

Day of marriage October 11, 1949

• The temperature on October 11, 1949 was between 8.6 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • March 30 » Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
  • May 20 » In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  • May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
  • December 13 » The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

Day of death January 17, 1999

• The temperature on January 17, 1999 was between 3.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
  • April 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
  • May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
  • August 26 » Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • October 31 » EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
  • December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.

Day of burial January 21, 1999

• The temperature on January 21, 1999 was between 6.0 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
  • February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
  • April 9 » Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
  • April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • November 19 » Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1997 » Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
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