Family tree Verloop » Willem (Wim) VERLOOP (1940-2008)

Day of marriage May 14, 1964

• The temperature on May 14, 1964 was between 6.5 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • March 31 » Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état.
  • April 8 » The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted.
  • April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
  • August 4 » Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
  • October 29 » A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
  • October 29 » The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.

Day of death August 24, 2008

• The temperature on August 24, 2008 was between 8.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
  • April 3 » ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
  • June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
  • August 16 » The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
  • September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
  • December 14 » Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Rocco Petrone, American soldier and engineer (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Aaron Russo, American director and producer (b. 1943)
• 2007 » Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
• 2010 » Satoshi Kon, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1963)
• 2011 » Seyhan Erözçelik, Turkish poet and author (b. 1962)