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Personal data Marginus "Gene" Giard 

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Household of Marginus "Gene" Giard

He is married to Patricia Alice van Bokkem.

They got married about 2001.

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Historical events

Birthday November 17, 1928

  • The temperature on November 17, 1928 was between 6.7 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
    • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
    • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
    • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
    • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
    • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Day of death November 11, 2017

  • The temperature on November 11, 2017 was between 3.8 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2017: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 17.1 million citizens.
    • June 5 » Montenegro becomes the 29th member of the NATO.
    • June 12 » American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
    • October 1 » An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
    • October 12 » The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. and is immediately followed by Israel.
    • October 27 » Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
    • November 21 » Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1927 » Fenella Fielding, English actress († 2018)
  • 1927 » Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, and politician
  • 1927 » Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer († 2015)
  • 1928 » Arman, French-American painter and sculptor († 2005)
  • 1928 » Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer
  • 1928 » Rance Howard, American actor, producer, and screenwriter († 2017)

Source: Wikipedia


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