Family tree Fopma/Bouma » Hyke Sophia Willems Kuperus (1924-2005)

Day of marriage January 30, 1946

• The temperature on January 30, 1946 was between 2.5 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
  • February 24 » Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
  • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • April 18 » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
  • April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
  • May 4 » In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.

Day of death June 6, 2005

• The temperature on June 6, 2005 was between 8.3 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 3 » James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
  • July 21 » July 2005 London bombings occur.
  • September 16 » The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
  • September 26 » The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.
  • December 3 » XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
  • December 11 » The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.

Day of burial June 10, 2005

• The temperature on June 10, 2005 was between 5.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
  • April 23 » The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
  • July 7 » A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
  • November 23 » Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
  • December 5 » The 6.8 M_w  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (b. 1931)
• 2006 » Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)
• 2009 » Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916)
• 2012 » Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (b. 1960)
• 2013 » Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)