Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Alida Maria Johanna Groene (1938-2015)

Day of marriage July 27, 1960

• The temperature on July 27, 1960 was between 9.8 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
  • January 25 » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
  • February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
  • April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
  • December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.

Day of death September 21, 2015

• The temperature on September 21, 2015 was between 11.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • May 3 » Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
  • June 30 » A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
  • August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
  • August 16 » More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
  • November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
  • December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

Source: Wikipedia

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