Family tree Kreukniet, Kreuk, van Bemmel , Haak, Lentz » Marcelis Jan van Bemmel (1925-2000)

Day of marriage September 2, 1954

• The temperature on September 2, 1954 was between 14.9 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • April 1 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
  • September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
  • September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

Day of death June 19, 2000

• The temperature on June 19, 2000 was between 17.4 °C and 33.5 °C and averaged 25.7 °C. There was 15.3 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
  • July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • December 30 » Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
  • December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.

Day of burial June 22, 2000

• The temperature on June 22, 2000 was between 13.4 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  • August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • November 30 » NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 2001 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)