Family tree Van Geel » Henricus Johannes VISSERS (1944-2009)

Day of marriage August 17, 1979

• The temperature on August 17, 1979 was between 12.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
  • July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
  • August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
  • September 7 » The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5billion to avoid bankruptcy.
  • October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
  • November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

Day of death January 2, 2009

• The temperature on January 2, 2009 was between -7.2 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
  • January 8 » A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
  • June 8 » Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
  • June 30 » Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
  • July 5 » A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
  • November 21 » A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
• 2008 » George MacDonald Fraser, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Lee S. Dreyfus, American sailor, academic, and politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
• 2009 » Dnyaneshwar Agashe, Indian businessman and cricketer (b. 1942)
• 2009 » Inger Christensen, Danish poet and author (b. 1935)
• 2010 » David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (b. 1958)