Family tree Klavers » Maria Gesina Harms (1932-2001)

Day of marriage May 1, 1954

• The temperature on May 1, 1954 was between 1.0 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
  • June 24 » First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M.100 of France in An Khê.
  • July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
  • July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
  • November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
  • December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

Day of death December 18, 2001

• The temperature on December 18, 2001 was between -3.9 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
  • February 18 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
  • September 3 » In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, some of whom hurl missiles and abuse. The protest sparks fierce rioting and grabs world headlines.
  • October 4 » Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
  • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• 2000 » Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
• 2001 » Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (b. 1901)