Family tree Van Rijn » Petronella Anna "Nel" Wester (1922-2011)

Day of marriage August 22, 1946

• The temperature on August 22, 1946 was between 9.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
  • April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
  • April 23 » Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
  • May 9 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
  • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.

Day of death March 4, 2011

• The temperature on March 4, 2011 was between -3.7 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
  • May 13 » Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
  • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
  • September 11 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opens on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
  • November 12 » A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
  • December 13 » A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2011 » Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
• 2011 » Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
• 2011 » Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
• 2011 » Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Nepalese journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2011 » Vivienne Harris, English journalist and publisher, co-founded the Jewish Telegraph (b. 1921)