Family tree van Wincoop - Sandkuijl » Elizabeth Hendrika van Wincoop (1935-2003)

Day of marriage July 22, 1959

• The temperature on July 22, 1959 was between 11.5 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
  • February 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
  • March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
  • July 7 » Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
  • September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
  • November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

Day of death August 20, 2003

• The temperature on August 20, 2003 was between 9.6 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
  • July 22 » Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
  • September 20 » Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
  • October 4 » The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
  • December 14 » Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer and songwriter (b. 1970)
• 2005 » Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
• 2006 » Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1977)
• 2006 » Joe Rosenthal, American photographer and journalist (b. 1911)