Database Van Broekhoven » Adrianus van Gestel (1917-2002)
Personal data Adrianus van Gestel
- He was born on August 22, 1917 in Hedikhuizen.
- He died on July 17, 2002 in Waalwijk, he was 84 years old.
- A child of Johannes Adrianus van Gestel and Cornelia van Bijnen
- This information was last updated on October 7, 2023.
Household of Adrianus van Gestel
He is married to Johanna Jacoba Fitters.
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Birthday August 22, 1917
- The temperature on August 22, 1917 was between 10.4 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
- May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
- July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
- September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
- November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
- December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
Day of death July 17, 2002
- The temperature on July 17, 2002 was between 14.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
- January 28 » TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.
- February 27 » Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
- March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
- July 1 » Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
- October 31 » A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
- November 4 » Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
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- 2005 » Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
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J. van Broekhoven, "Database Van Broekhoven", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/database-van-broekhoven/I42252.php : accessed May 20, 2024), "Adrianus van Gestel (1917-2002)".