Family tree Opperman » Johannes Hendrikus (Johan Henri) van Kuijk (1921-1985)

Day of marriage May 28, 1947

• The temperature on May 28, 1947 was between 6.7 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
  • May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
  • September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
  • October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.

Day of death October 14, 1985

• The temperature on October 14, 1985 was between 4.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
  • May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
  • May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
  • June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
  • October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902)