Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Katherine Norton (1924-2002)

Day of marriage August 23, 1941

• The temperature on August 23, 1941 was between 13.0 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
  • January 17 » Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
  • September 27 » The SSPatrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
  • December 10 » World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
  • December 12 » World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
  • December 24 » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.

Day of death September 3, 2002

• The temperature on September 3, 2002 was between 9.4 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • February 1 » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
  • February 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
  • April 4 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
  • July 15 » Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
  • November 28 » Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
  • December 27 » Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2001 » Pauline Kael, American film critic and author (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (b. 1919)
• 2002 » W. Clement Stone, American businessman, philanthropist, and author (b. 1902)
• 2003 » Alan Dugan, American soldier and poet (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (b. 1914)