Eijsermans family tree » Franciscus Maria "Frans" van Steenbergen (1927-1985)

Day of marriage May 8, 1954

• The temperature on May 8, 1954 was between 1.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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)
• 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
  • April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
  • June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
  • September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
  • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
  • November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.

Day of death May 6, 1985

• The temperature on May 6, 1985 was between 5.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
  • March 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
  • August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
  • November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

Day of burial May 9, 1985

• The temperature on May 9, 1985 was between 7.5 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
  • August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
  • September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
  • November 15 » The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
  • December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
• 1983 » Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bonner Pink, English politician (b. 1912)
• 1984 » Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (b. 1904)
• 1987 » William J. Casey, American politician, 13th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
• 1989 » Earl Blaik, American football player and coach (b. 1897)