Family tree Van Rijn » Cornelis "Cees" Wokke (1922-1997)

Day of marriage July 28, 1947

• The temperature on July 28, 1947 was between 14.9 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 24.0 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
  • August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

Day of death June 17, 1997

• The temperature on June 17, 1997 was between 7.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
  • July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
  • August 29 » At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
  • December 3 » In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)