Database Schaap » Engelina Maartje Roos (1912-1999)

Day of marriage October 23, 1940

• The temperature on October 23, 1940 was between 3.3 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 29 » 12th Academy Awards: For her performance as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
  • May 15 » World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
  • July 23 » The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • September 9 » Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.
  • September 12 » Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
  • October 16 » Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

Day of death February 17, 1999

• The temperature on February 17, 1999 was between -1.1 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
  • March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
  • April 9 » Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
  • September 21 » The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
  • October 26 » Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
  • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

Day of burial February 19, 1999

• The temperature on February 19, 1999 was between 4.3 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
  • April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • August 31 » A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
  • October 27 » Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
  • November 30 » British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1998 » Ernst Jünger, German soldier, philosopher, and author (b. 1895)
• 2003 » Steve Bechler, American baseball player (b. 1979)
• 2004 » José López Portillo, Mexican lawyer and politician, 51st President of Mexico, 1976-1982 (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Dan O'Herlihy, Irish-American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 » Omar Sívori, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1935)