Family tree Van Rijn » Nicolaas Hendrikus Scheerman (1928-2002)

Day of marriage September 13, 1962

• The temperature on September 13, 1962 was between 4.6 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
  • March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
  • July 23 » The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
  • August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
  • October 12 » The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

Day of death November 15, 2002

• The temperature on November 15, 2002 was between 2.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
  • March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
  • April 4 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
  • April 14 » Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
  • November 6 » Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
  • November 15 » Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954)
• 2003 » Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)