Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Cornelis Augustinus Antonius Yark (1933-1994)

Day of marriage September 1, 1960

• The temperature on September 1, 1960 was between 10.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The heavily 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 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
  • March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
  • May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
  • August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
  • August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • August 19 » Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.

Day of death August 1, 1994

• The temperature on August 1, 1994 was between 14.5 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 29.4 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • April 4 » Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
  • July 4 » Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
  • July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
  • August 14 » Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
  • November 9 » The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
  • December 3 » Taiwan held the first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only direct elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directed Mayor of Kaohsiung.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
• 1996 » Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1998 » Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)