Family tree Weening » Sjoukje Wybenga (1932-2015)

Day of marriage January 28, 1954

• The temperature on January 28, 1954 was between -11.3 °C and -5.0 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
  • February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

Day of death December 9, 2015

• The temperature on December 9, 2015 was between 5.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 25 » A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
  • May 12 » A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
  • May 12 » Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.
  • July 17 » At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
  • October 3 » Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
  • December 31 » A fire broke out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates located near the Burj Khalifa two hours before the fireworks display was due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (b. 1924)
• 2014 » Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)
• 2015 » Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)
• 2015 » Juvenal Juvêncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (b. 1941)
• 2015 » Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (b. 1927)