Family tree Schoemaker » Steven van Veen (1939-2000)

Day of marriage October 28, 1958

• The temperature on October 28, 1958 was between 5.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
  • August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
  • September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
  • October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
  • November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
  • December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.

Day of death February 20, 2000

• The temperature on February 20, 2000 was between -2.8 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  • August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
• 1999 » Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
• 2000 » Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2001 » Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani air marshal (b. 1947)