Family tree Smith/Bais » Simon Zijm (1923-2001)

Day of marriage May 21, 1953

• The temperature on May 21, 1953 was between 10.9 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
  • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
  • June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
  • June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
  • July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
  • July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement

Day of death August 10, 2001

• The temperature on August 10, 2001 was between 10.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
  • June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
  • June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
  • October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
  • December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian historian, scholar, and critic (b. 1899)
• 1999 » Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television presenter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)