Family tree Kamermans-Van Westen » Irene Maria Emelia van Vlaanderen (1930-2012)

Day of death January 17, 2012

• The temperature on January 17, 2012 was between -5.3 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• 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 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
  • February 22 » A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
  • February 23 » A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
  • September 27 » In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.
  • September 28 » Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
  • October 14 » Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.

Day of burial January 24, 2012

• The average temperature on January 24, 2012 was 3.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• 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 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • April 30 » An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
  • June 24 » Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
  • July 30 » A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300million people without power in northern India.
  • September 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
  • September 21 » Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
  • November 9 » At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.

Source: Wikipedia

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