Van Daalen & Maasland » Petrus Jacob Simon Gommers (1930-2013)

Day of marriage September 26, 1998

• The temperature on September 26, 1998 was between 12.6 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (52%). 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 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
  • January 26 » Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
  • March 27 » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
  • May 26 » The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
  • May 30 » The 6.5 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
  • October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.

Day of death May 31, 2013

• The temperature on May 31, 2013 was between 10.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 15 » A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
  • May 25 » A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
  • May 31 » The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
  • June 5 » A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.
  • July 16 » As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
  • December 16 » A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.

Source: Wikipedia

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