Family tree Eilander » Jan Apeldoorn (1917-1992)

Day of marriage May 7, 1954

• The temperature on May 7, 1954 was between 1.6 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
  • February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
  • May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
  • August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
  • November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

Day of death April 21, 1992

• The temperature on April 21, 1992 was between 2.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • April 22 » In a series of explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
  • 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.
  • May 23 » Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
  • July 22 » Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
  • July 23 » A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
  • November 27 » For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » James Kirkwood, Jr., American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1924)
• 1990 » Erté, Russian-French illustrator (b. 1892)
• 1991 » Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen general and politician, 1st President of Ichkeria (b. 1944)
• 1996 » Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born American engineer and race car driver (b. 1909)