Family tree Van Ommen » Edwin van Ommen (1930-2001)

Day of marriage October 7, 1954

• The temperature on October 7, 1954 was between 9.0 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 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.
  • May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
  • 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?"
  • July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
  • September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
  • October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.

Day of death August 8, 2001

• The temperature on August 8, 2001 was between 13.7 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Mars Odyssey is launched.
  • April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
  • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
  • September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
  • October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
  • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
• 2003 » Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Leon Golub, American painter and academic (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)