Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Jacob van Duijn (1915-1999)

Day of marriage January 17, 1947

• The temperature on January 17, 1947 was between 2.7 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
  • March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
  • March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.

Day of death December 14, 1999

• The temperature on December 14, 1999 was between 1.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
  • August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
  • August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
  • November 2 » Xerox murders: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
  • 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.
  • November 12 » The 7.2 M_w  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Emily Cheney Neville, American author (b. 1919)
• 1997 » Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
• 1998 » A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., American lawyer, judge, and activist (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Norman Fell, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)