Family tree Tinnenbroek » Maria (Rie) Kerk (1920-1997)

Day of marriage November 5, 1955

• The temperature on November 5, 1955 was between 10.4 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
  • April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
  • April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
  • May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
  • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  • October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.

Day of death April 14, 1997

• The temperature on April 14, 1997 was between 5.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
  • March 13 » The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
  • April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
  • May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
  • November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 1995 » Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Anthony Newley, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1999 » Bill Wendell, American television announcer (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)