Family tree Van Gestel » Lucien Declerck (1929-1999)

Day of marriage June 8, 1954

• The temperature on June 8, 1954 was between 12.6 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
  • August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
  • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
  • November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

Day of death April 12, 1999

• The temperature on April 12, 1999 was between 6.3 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
  • April 9 » Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
  • August 2 » The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
  • August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
  • August 19 » In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
  • December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Day of burial April 16, 1999

• The temperature on April 16, 1999 was between 0.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
  • March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
  • May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
  • July 9 » Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
  • September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
  • November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » George Wald, American neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Robert Ford, Canadian poet and diplomat (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
• 2002 » George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Moran Campbell, Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask (b. 1925)