Family tree Van Ommen » Jan Willem Fikse (1931-2016)

Day of marriage May 24, 1955

• The temperature on May 24, 1955 was between 7.1 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
  • May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
  • May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
  • June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

Day of death August 22, 2016

• The temperature on August 22, 2016 was between 14.2 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
  • March 27 » A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
  • April 3 » The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
  • September 3 » The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
  • November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikoura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people.
  • December 19 » Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.

Day of burial August 27, 2016

• The temperature on August 27, 2016 was between 16.1 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
  • March 27 » A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
  • September 30 » Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
  • December 10 » Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
  • December 19 » Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
  • December 25 » A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Eric Thompson, English race car driver and book dealer (b. 1919)
• 2015 » Ieng Thirith, Cambodian academic and politician (b. 1932)
• 2016 » S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (b. 1924)
• 2016 » Toots Thielemans, Belgian and American jazz musician (b. 1922)
• 2017 » Michael J. C. Gordon, British Computer scientist (b. 1948)