Family tree Eilander » Wilhelmina Antonia Hoogland (1923-2006)

Day of marriage March 7, 1961

• The temperature on March 7, 1961 was between 0.9 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
  • May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
  • June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
  • September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.
  • November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

Day of death November 24, 2006

• The temperature on November 24, 2006 was between 7.4 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
  • May 17 » The aircraft carrier USSOriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
  • June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
  • July 4 » Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
  • September 17 » Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
  • October 2 » Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2006 » George W. S. Trow, American author, playwright, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2006 » Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
• 2006 » Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist and ethologist (b. 1938)
• 2007 » Casey Calvert, American guitarist (b. 1981)