Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Joannes Andreas Hubertus "Sjeng" Servaes (1922-2010)

Day of marriage January 29, 1947

• The temperature on January 29, 1947 was between -13.6 °C and -4.7 °C and averaged -10.1 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
  • February 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
  • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
  • April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
  • August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

Day of death July 20, 2010

• The temperature on July 20, 2010 was between 13.7 °C and 29.3 °C and averaged 23.2 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • February 13 » A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
  • February 20 » In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
  • June 16 » Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
  • July 25 » WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
  • August 19 » Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
  • August 24 » Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2008 » Artie Traum, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1943)
• 2008 » Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (b. 1922)
• 2009 » Vedat Okyar, Turkish footballer (b. 1945)
• 2011 » Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Alastair Burnet, English journalist (b. 1928)