Patrick Balfour family tree » Elizabeth Marjorie Watson (1925-2010)

Day of marriage October 21, 1949

• The temperature on October 21, 1949 was between 7.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. 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)
• 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.
  • January 1 » United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
  • May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
  • September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
  • October 7 » The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

Day of death September 23, 2010

• The temperature on September 23, 2010 was between 11.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 22.6 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 12 » An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
  • May 21 » JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
  • May 28 » In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
  • June 24 » At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
  • July 2 » The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
  • December 22 » The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2012 » Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (b. 1948)