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He is married to Janna Graafland.

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Historical events

Birthday April 26, 1914

  • The temperature on April 26, 1914 was between 3.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • August 5 » World War I: The German minelayer SSKönigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMSAmphion.
    • August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
    • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
    • November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
    • December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.

Day of death January 6, 1979

  • The temperature on January 6, 1979 was between -17.0 °C and -7.7 °C and averaged -11.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
    • February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
    • July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
    • October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
    • December 3 » In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
    • December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1912 » A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author († 2000)
  • 1914 » Bernard Malamud, Jewish American novelist and short story writer († 1986)
  • 1914 » James Rouse, American real estate developer († 1996)
  • 1916 » Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator († 2000)
  • 1916 » Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot († 2013)
  • 1916 » Morris West, Australian author and playwright († 1999)

Source: Wikipedia


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