Family tree Corbey » Maria Jacoba "Coba" Corbeij (1926-1990)

Day of marriage October 21, 1950

• The temperature on October 21, 1950 was between 4.7 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
  • March 1 » Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
  • March 7 » Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
  • July 16 » Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
  • August 20 » Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Nakdong River and assault the city of Taegu.
  • November 19 » US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.

Day of death February 13, 1990

• The temperature on February 13, 1990 was between 2.6 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
  • April 12 » Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
  • April 16 » "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
  • April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
  • May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
  • May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Day of burial February 17, 1990

• The temperature on February 17, 1990 was between -1.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
  • March 18 » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
  • April 11 » Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
  • August 7 » First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
  • October 2 » Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
  • December 11 » Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (b. 1888)
• 1986 » Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
• 1989 » Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1911)
• 1991 » Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)