Family tree Geerts / de Waal » Johannes Jacobus (Jan) van Gils (1930-2013)

Day of marriage July 26, 1954

• The temperature on July 26, 1954 was between 14.6 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 16.5 mm of rain during 13.3 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
  • December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
  • December 4 » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.

Day of death September 6, 2013

• The temperature on September 6, 2013 was between 13.4 °C and 27.9 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 27 » A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
  • June 3 » At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
  • June 27 » NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
  • September 13 » Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
  • October 12 » Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
  • November 8 » Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Jerome Kilty, American actor and playwright (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Ann C. Crispin, American author (b. 1950)
• 2013 » Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)