Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Hein Anton Merkens (1962-1997)

Day of marriage March 15, 1993

• The temperature on March 15, 1993 was between 3.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
  • March 20 » The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
  • May 18 » Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
  • July 25 » Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
  • August 7 » Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • November 4 » China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Kai Tak Airport.

Day of death November 21, 1997

• The temperature on November 21, 1997 was between 6.0 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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, 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
  • July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
  • August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
  • August 7 » Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Day of burial November 26, 1997

• The temperature on November 26, 1997 was between 0.9 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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, 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
  • June 10 » Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
  • September 18 » The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
  • November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
  • December 29 » Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1899)
• 1995 » Noel Jones, Indian-English diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan (b. 1940)
• 1995 » Peter Grant, English actor and manager (b. 1935)
• 1996 » Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Bernard Rose, English organist and composer (b 1916)
• 1999 » Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (b. 1908)