Family tree Waterschoot en De Lepper » Franciscus Petrus Cornelius Maria "Frans" Waterschoot (1933-1997)

Day of marriage July 7, 1978

• The temperature on July 7, 1978 was between 9.2 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
  • May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
  • June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
  • August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
  • December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.

Day of death December 25, 1997

• The temperature on December 25, 1997 was between 8.8 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • February 11 » Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
  • April 3 » The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
  • September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
  • December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
  • December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

Day of burial December 30, 1997

• The temperature on December 30, 1997 was between 2.3 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
  • May 27 » The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
  • July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
  • September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
  • October 15 » The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
  • December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Chang Kee-ryo, Korean surgeon (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (b. 1958)
• 1997 » Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)