Genealogy Van Houdt » Dingenus "Dies" van Houdt (1919-2000)

Day of marriage March 22, 1945

• The temperature on March 22, 1945 was between 0.6 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 23 » World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
  • February 14 » World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
  • February 14 » World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
  • April 17 » Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.
  • May 11 » World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USSBunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes.
  • June 29 » The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.

Day of death May 12, 2000

• The temperature on May 12, 2000 was between 11.3 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (83%). 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.
  • February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • April 5 » UEFA Cup semi-final violence: Four Galatasaray fans are arrested for the stabbings to death of two Leeds United fans.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
  • November 26 » George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.

Day of burial May 17, 2000

• The temperature on May 17, 2000 was between 10.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (35%). 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 year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
  • February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
  • March 20 » Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
  • June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Ștefan Kovács, Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2001 » Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933)