Family tree Linskens 1500-2020 » Theo Swinkels (1932-2000)

Day of marriage November 8, 1957

• The temperature on November 8, 1957 was between 5.2 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
  • August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.

Day of death August 12, 2000

• The temperature on August 12, 2000 was between 9.7 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 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 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 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
  • 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 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.

Day of burial August 16, 2000

• The temperature on August 16, 2000 was between 12.5 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
  • July 25 » Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
  • August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (b. 1955)
• 2000 » Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)