Family tree Menting » "Gert" Menting (1922-1989)

Day of marriage October 7, 1952

• The temperature on October 7, 1952 was between 6.9 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
  • April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
  • June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
  • July 7 » The ocean liner SSUnited States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
  • July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
  • July 21 » The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.

Day of death April 13, 1989

• The temperature on April 13, 1989 was between 4.7 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The heavily clouded 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
  • February 14 » Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
  • April 2 » ASUS corporation is founded.
  • April 27 » The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
  • October 3 » A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
  • December 17 » Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harp player and musicologist (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920)
• 1992 » Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (b. 1968)
• 1992 » Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1923)
• 1993 » Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1909)