Lieve ouders,

Een klein raadsel:

Februari 2007

- Dan zijn jullie samen 120 jaar oud

en 35 jaar getrouwd

Waar gaan we naar toe 3-5 februari 2007?

Het is er niet hoog en niet laag,

de taal is divers

Rust, ruimte en natuur

samen zijn met dierbaren,

Wie zouden deze dierbaren kunnen zijn?

Wij kijken er naar uit!

Nog even een terugblik:

Samen 120 jaar: het jaar 1887

Gebeurtenissen in 1887

· January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

· January 28 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick

· December 25 - Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first ran from the stills of Glenfiddich Distillery. The whisky is still produced today by William Grant & Sons.

Lous 60 jaar:

Gebeurtenissen in 1946

· January 17 - The UN Security Council holds its first session

· January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of France

· January 29 - Central Intelligence Group established, CIA established in 1947

· January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

· February 14 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania

· June 10 - Italy declared republic

· October 15 - Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, Hermann Göring, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.

· October 23 - United Nations' first meeting in Long Island.

· November 15 - Netherlands recognized Republic of Indonesia.

· December 11 - UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) founded.

· December 31 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims an end of hostilities in World War II.

· First Tupperware sold in department and hardware stores.

Birthdays:

· May 20 - Cher, American actress and singer

· June 14 - Donald Trump, American real estate magnate

· August 19 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States

· September 5 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (d. 1991)

35 jaar getrouwd: Events 1972

· January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom.

· February 7 - Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections - but not in all canton-specific ones.

· February 27 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus.

Nobel Prize:

· Literature - Pablo Neruda

Veel liefs,

jullie dochters