Family tree Severijn » Cornelius (Neil) Beenes (1926-2000)

Day of marriage December 2, 1949

• The average temperature on December 2, 1949 was 3.0 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
  • March 1 » Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
  • April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
  • April 18 » The keel for the aircraft carrier USSUnited States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
  • May 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.

Day of death January 17, 2000

• The temperature on January 17, 2000 was between 4.8 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
  • August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
  • October 7 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
  • October 26 » The Sony PlayStation 2 is launched in North American markets with 27 launch titles.
  • November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
  • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Philip Jones, English trumpet player and educator (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Roman Personov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1932)