Family tree Dusseljee » Louise Westra (1926-1992)

Day of marriage December 24, 1947

• The temperature on December 24, 1947 was between 5.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 9.7 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
  • December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

Day of death March 27, 1992

• The temperature on March 27, 1992 was between 1.7 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.
  • March 1 » Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • April 12 » The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
  • May 17 » Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, hundreds of injuries, many disappearances, and more than 3,500 arrests.
  • October 2 » Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
  • November 11 » The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 » Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
• 1992 » James E. Webb, American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Lang Hancock, Australian businessman (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1900)