Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Jan Michiel Hendrik (Jan) Awouters (1920-1995)

Day of marriage August 9, 1949

• The temperature on August 9, 1949 was between 9.7 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• 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 year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
  • June 19 » The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Speedway, where Jim Roper would win the inaugural event.
  • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
  • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
  • November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.

Day of death February 14, 1995

• The temperature on February 14, 1995 was between 6.2 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • March 22 » Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
  • May 28 » The 7.0 M_w  Neftegorsk earthquake shook the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
  • June 5 » The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
  • September 19 » The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
  • November 6 » Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
  • December 19 » The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet serial killer (b. 1936)
• 1994 » Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (b. 1932)
• 1995 » Michael V. Gazzo, American actor and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1995 » U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1999 » John Ehrlichman, American lawyer and politician, 12th White House Counsel (b. 1925)