Family tree Koster Twijslerheide e.o. » Anna Catharina Aalet "Aaltje" Kortendijk (1922-1996)

Day of marriage November 27, 1947

• The average temperature on November 27, 1947 was 3.3 °C. There was 13.7 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
  • August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

Day of death January 6, 1996

• The temperature on January 6, 1996 was between -5.5 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
  • June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
  • July 25 » In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
  • August 14 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
  • September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
  • December 10 » The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 1999 » Michel Petrucciani, French-American pianist (b. 1962)
• 2000 » Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)