Family tree Diederen Gielen Schinveld » Peter Gerard Joseph "Pierre" Rademakers (1914-2000)

Day of marriage August 7, 1942

• The temperature on August 7, 1942 was between 11.3 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
  • February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
  • March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
  • March 28 » World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
  • May 8 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USSLexington.
  • December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

Day of death April 9, 2000

• The temperature on April 9, 2000 was between 4.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
  • October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
  • November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.

Day of burial April 14, 2000

• The temperature on April 14, 2000 was between 2.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
  • May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
  • August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
  • December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Mae Boren Axton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
• 1999 » Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerien general and politician, President of Niger (b. 1949)
• 2001 » Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2002 » Leopold Vietoris, Austrian soldier, mathematician, and academic (b. 1891)
• 2002 » Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (b. 1926)