Family tree De Goeij / Hendriks » Johannes Cornelis (Jan) Benjamins (1929-1985)

Day of marriage October 12, 1955

• The temperature on October 12, 1955 was between 4.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
  • May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
  • May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
  • June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
  • July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
  • November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.

Day of death December 14, 1985

• The temperature on December 14, 1985 was between 6.8 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
  • March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
  • May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
  • May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
  • August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
  • August 7 » Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 1984 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (b. 1934)
• 1989 » Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)