Family tree de Bruijn-van der Meer » Dirk "Dik" Huijsman (1924-2007)

Day of marriage November 29, 1950

• The temperature on November 29, 1950 was between 5.6 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 21 » American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
  • February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
  • June 28 » Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
  • July 5 » Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
  • September 4 » Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
  • 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.

Day of death November 20, 2007

• The temperature on November 20, 2007 was between 4.8 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 27 » Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
  • May 3 » The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
  • June 27 » Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
  • July 31 » Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
  • September 16 » Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
  • September 29 » Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

Day of burial November 24, 2007

• The temperature on November 24, 2007 was between -0.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
  • April 27 » Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
  • July 12 » U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
  • September 27 » NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
  • October 2 » President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
  • November 7 » Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (b. 1931)
• 2006 » Donald Hamilton, American author (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1950)
• 2007 » Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (b. 1919)