Scherek Arbol » Theodore Richard Scherck Scherek (1949-2014)

Day of marriage June 26, 1976

• The temperature on June 26, 1976 was between 17.2 °C and 32.9 °C and averaged 26.3 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
  • February 24 » The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
  • July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
  • October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
  • October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
  • November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.

Day of death January 9, 2014

• The temperature on January 9, 2014 was between 6.8 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
  • March 12 » A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
  • April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
  • July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
  • August 10 » Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
  • October 1 » A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Brigitte Askonas, Austrian-English immunologist and academic (b. 1923)
• 2013 » James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 » Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
• 2014 » Josep Maria Castellet, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Paul du Toit, South African painter and sculptor (b. 1965)