Family tree Verbeeck » Alfons Josef Arthur Maria (Alfons Josef Arthur Maria) Verbeeck (1924-2016)

Day of marriage May 3, 1960

• The temperature on May 3, 1960 was between -1.3 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
  • May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
  • August 1 » Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
  • August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
  • November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

Day of death February 21, 2016

• The temperature on February 21, 2016 was between 8.6 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called 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 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
  • February 12 » Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
  • June 16 » Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.
  • September 17 » Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.
  • October 8 » In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
  • December 10 » Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920)
• 2015 » Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943)
• 2016 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2017 » Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926)