The temperature on August 16, 1961 was between 12.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
Day of marriage September 25, 1985
The temperature on September 25, 1985 was between 6.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
June 19 » Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
July 20 » The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Gijsbertus Cornelis (Bert) Severijn, "Family tree Severijn", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-severijn/I6628.php : accessed January 31, 2026), "William Jan van de Merwe (1961-)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.