Family tree Bindt » Martine Maria van Zutphen (1927-2011)

Day of marriage December 20, 1950

• The temperature on December 20, 1950 was between -10.4 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -5.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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)
• 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 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
  • June 24 » Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
  • June 29 » Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
  • July 5 » Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
  • November 8 » Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
  • November 19 » US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.

Day of death September 7, 2011

• The temperature on September 7, 2011 was between 12.8 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • April 24 » WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
  • May 21 » Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
  • July 13 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
  • July 30 » Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
  • September 17 » Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
  • November 23 » Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.

Day of cremation September 14, 2011

• The temperature on September 14, 2011 was between 11.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • April 11 » An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
  • April 19 » Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
  • June 1 » A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
  • July 13 » Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
  • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
  • December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2010 » Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (b. 1991)
• 2010 » Barbara Holland, American author (b. 1933)
• 2010 » John Kluge, German-American businessman (b. 1914)
• 2010 » William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (b. 1930)
• 2011 » Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
• 2012 » César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1923)