Eijsermans family tree » Henricus Franciscus van Dijk (1918-1988)

Day of marriage January 27, 1950

• The temperature on January 27, 1950 was between -9.4 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 12 » The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
  • June 29 » Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
  • July 5 » Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
  • July 29 » Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
  • December 25 » The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.

Day of death September 11, 1988

• The temperature on September 11, 1988 was between 8.3 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
  • March 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
  • April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
  • September 13 » Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
  • December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
  • December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Noel Streatfeild, English author (b. 1895)
• 1986 » Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek academic and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and educator (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1988 » Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (b. 1935)