Family tree Weening » Gepke Kuipers (1917-1995)

Day of marriage June 6, 1946

• The temperature on June 6, 1946 was between 8.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
  • February 12 » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
  • April 1 » The 8.6 M_w  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
  • July 26 » Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
  • August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
  • September 20 » Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.

Day of death August 8, 1995

• The temperature on August 8, 1995 was between 14.2 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • July 25 » A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
  • August 30 » Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
  • September 6 » Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
  • October 27 » Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
  • December 19 » The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
  • December 20 » American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1991 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)