1991 Persian Gulf War 1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union 1994 Channel tunnel opens to traffic 1997 Scotland Scientists clone a sheep 1999 World population reaches 6 billion

1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 1989 Berlin wall falls

1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II 1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)

							Dirk van Beek  b.1916 Maartensdijk, Netherlands  d.1996 Nieuwegein, Netherlands
				Dirk Antonius van Beek  b.1942 Utrecht, Netherlands  d.1994 Rijssen, Netherlands			Margaretha de Gier  b.1917 Maartensdijk, Netherlands  d.2003 Utrecht, Netherlands
			Alexander Diederich van Beek  b. Living  d.
				Wilhelmina Aagje A Smit  b. Living  d.
			Tabitha de Bruijn  b.           d.

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