Family tree Van Knippenberg » Robert Donald Knippenberg (1930-1995)

Day of marriage June 7, 1952

• The temperature on June 7, 1952 was between 6.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • January 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
  • June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
  • July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
  • August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
  • October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
  • November 25 » Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.

Day of death February 21, 1995

• The temperature on February 21, 1995 was between 3.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • August 10 » Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
  • August 20 » The Firozabad rail disaster claimed 358 lives in Firozabad, India.
  • September 6 » Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
  • September 19 » The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
  • October 26 » An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, 20 of whom died.
  • November 22 » The 7.3 M_w  Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)