Family tree Kesting (div) » Cornelis Philip "Cock" Kesting (1920-2005)

Day of marriage May 16, 1951

• The temperature on May 16, 1951 was between 6.3 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
  • April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
  • May 14 » Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
  • May 21 » The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
  • December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
  • December 24 » Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.

Day of death December 12, 2005

• The temperature on December 12, 2005 was between 2.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
  • March 28 » An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.
  • August 16 » West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
  • October 19 » Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
  • October 30 » The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Annette Stroyberg, Danish actress (b. 1936)
• 2005 » Gebran Tueni, Lebanese journalist and politician (b. 1957)
• 2005 » Ramanand Sagar, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Robert Newmyer, American actor and producer (b. 1956)
• 2006 » Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
• 2006 » Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)