Family tree Verloop » Jan Cornelis VERLOOP (1946-2002)

Day of marriage April 24, 1970

• The temperature on April 24, 1970 was between 7.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • February 18 » The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
  • April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
  • April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
  • June 4 » Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
  • November 12 » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.

Day of death April 17, 2002

• The temperature on April 17, 2002 was between 3.2 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 11 » The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
  • May 6 » Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
  • May 10 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4million in cash and diamonds.
  • June 22 » An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
  • October 11 » A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.
  • December 23 » A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Earl King, American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1934)
• 2003 » H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 2003 » John Paul Getty, Jr., American-English philanthropist (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Edmond Pidoux, Swiss author and poet (b. 1908)