West-Europese adel » Willem Johan Baron de Vos van Steenwijk (1923-2010)

Day of marriage April 11, 1953

• The temperature on April 11, 1953 was between 0.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
  • March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
  • May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
  • July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
  • November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
  • December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

Day of death July 27, 2010

• The temperature on July 27, 2010 was between 11.9 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
  • February 15 » Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
  • March 11 » Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
  • April 3 » Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
  • September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
  • December 31 » Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.

Source: Wikipedia

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