Family tree Pierens-Raeman » Robert Jozef Raphaël Roels (1930-1996)

Day of marriage May 5, 1962

• The temperature on May 5, 1962 was between 2.7 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
  • July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
  • November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
  • December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.

Day of death August 28, 1996

• The temperature on August 28, 1996 was between 10.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain during 8.5 hours. The heavily 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 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.
  • January 9 » First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
  • January 27 » In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
  • February 29 » Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
  • August 14 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
  • September 24 » Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
  • November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1993 » William Stafford, American poet and academic (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Carl Giles, English cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 1995 » Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (b. 1906)
• 1995 » Michael Ende, German scientist and author (b. 1929)