Family tree Groot, Schellinkhout » Martha Agatha Groot (1928-2016)

Day of marriage November 19, 1947

• The temperature on November 19, 1947 was between -2.2 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
  • March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
  • June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.

Day of death July 13, 2016

• The temperature on July 13, 2016 was between 11.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
  • February 11 » A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
  • April 22 » The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
  • June 16 » Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.
  • July 23 » Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
  • October 13 » The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927)
• 2015 » Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)
• 2017 » Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955)