Familie De Vries - Meijer » Hendrik de Vries (1909-2002)

Day of marriage June 6, 1931

• The temperature on June 6, 1931 was between 7.8 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 12.9 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

Day of death February 4, 2002

• The temperature on February 4, 2002 was between 6.3 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • May 3 » An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
  • May 26 » The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
  • June 22 » An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
  • July 28 » Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
  • October 12 » Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
  • October 29 » Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

Day of burial February 9, 2002

• The temperature on February 9, 2002 was between 7.3 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • March 1 » The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800km (500mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
  • March 2 » U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
  • April 26 » Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
  • May 23 » The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
  • June 11 » Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
  • October 7 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.

Source: Wikipedia

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