Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Huberta Christina Akkerman (1912-1974)

Day of marriage October 13, 1960

• The temperature on October 13, 1960 was between 6.8 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 24.2 mm of rain during 11.7 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
  • May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
  • August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • September 14 » Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
  • September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

Day of death April 29, 1974

• The temperature on April 29, 1974 was between 4.2 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 7.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
  • February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • April 29 » Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
  • September 1 » The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353km/h).
  • October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
  • December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Day of burial May 3, 1974

• The temperature on May 3, 1974 was between 3.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • April 3 » The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
  • May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
  • July 24 » Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
  • July 27 » Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
  • October 19 » Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
  • November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)