Descendants Salawan Bessie » Eleonore Marguerite "Lily" Salawan Bessie (1922-2012)

Day of marriage January 23, 1946

• The temperature on January 23, 1946 was between -3.9 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
  • March 2 » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
  • April 20 » The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
  • June 1 » Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
  • June 5 » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
  • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

Day of death May 29, 2012

• The temperature on May 29, 2012 was between 8.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• 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 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • February 7 » President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
  • May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
  • July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
  • July 5 » The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020ft).
  • November 13 » A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific
  • November 17 » At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

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