Family tree Augustus » Pieter Joseph Maria "Piet" Augustus (1938-2013)

Day of marriage November 15, 1962

• The temperature on November 15, 1962 was between 1.0 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
  • March 2 » Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
  • May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
  • July 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
  • October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
  • October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

Day of death March 29, 2013

• The temperature on March 29, 2013 was between -3.4 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
  • June 3 » At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • August 14 » Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
  • October 12 » Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
  • October 28 » Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China.

Day of cremation April 6, 2013

• The temperature on April 6, 2013 was between -3.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 4 » A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
  • May 25 » A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
  • June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
  • July 7 » A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
  • August 9 » Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
  • November 17 » A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2013 » Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
• 2013 » Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942)
• 2013 » Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (b. 1930)