Family tree Plugboer » Jan Cornelis Kouwen (1932-2015)

Day of marriage September 6, 1956

• The temperature on September 6, 1956 was between 13.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
  • May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
  • September 25 » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
  • October 28 » Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
  • October 31 » Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
  • November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.

Day of death January 13, 2015

• The temperature on January 13, 2015 was between 4.1 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 14.0 mm of rain during 11.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
  • February 24 » A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
  • September 24 » At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
  • October 10 » Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 102 and injure 400.
  • October 29 » China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.
  • December 4 » A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (b. 1978)
• 2014 » Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (b. 1917)
• 2015 » Mark Juddery, Australian journalist and author (b. 1971)
• 2015 » Robert White, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Paraguay (b. 1926)
• 2016 » Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (b. 1935)