Family tree Perger » Hendrika Anna van Eck (1912-1996)

Day of marriage August 20, 1946

• The temperature on August 20, 1946 was between 11.5 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • March 29 » Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
  • April 17 » The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
  • June 2 » Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
  • July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
  • September 2 » The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
  • September 24 » The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.

Day of death March 7, 1996

• The temperature on March 7, 1996 was between 1.2 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
  • March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • May 21 » The ferry MVBukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
  • May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
  • July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
  • September 27 » The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory, who establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Angelo Piccaluga, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Carlo Mazzarella, Italian actor and journalist (b. 1919)
• 1993 » J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Martti Larni, Finnish writer (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Tony Harris, South African cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)