Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Adrien Hubert Put (1933-2000)

Day of marriage October 21, 1960

• The temperature on October 21, 1960 was between 9.4 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
  • January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
  • May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • August 11 » Chad declares independence.
  • November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.

Day of death October 9, 2000

• The temperature on October 9, 2000 was between 3.0 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • January 21 » Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
  • February 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
  • February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
  • October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
  • November 1 » Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
• 2000 » David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 » Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)
• 2002 » Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)