Family tree Spenlau » Kathleen Eustacia Redfield (1915-2003)

Day of marriage November 26, 1946

• The temperature on November 26, 1946 was between 5.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
  • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
  • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
  • August 8 » First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.

Day of death July 31, 2003

• The temperature on July 31, 2003 was between 10.3 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • March 12 » Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
  • March 16 » American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah trying to obstruct the demolition of a home by being run over by a bulldozer.
  • March 23 » Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
  • August 14 » A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
  • October 9 » Mission: Space opens to the public in Walt Disney World.
  • October 18 » Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

Day of burial July 5, 2003

• The temperature on July 5, 2003 was between 13.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
  • July 1 » Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
  • August 10 » European heat wave: The then-highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, England. This record was later surpassed in July 2019.
  • August 11 » Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • December 17 » SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
  • December 25 » UTAGE Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1933)
• 2004 » Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)