Genealogy Van Raam » Albert van Pel (1912-2001)

Day of marriage July 6, 1939

• The temperature on July 6, 1939 was between 11.4 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • May 3 » The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
  • June 1 » First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
  • October 8 » World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
  • October 16 » World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
  • December 14 » Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
  • December 17 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.

Day of death June 2, 2001

• The temperature on June 2, 2001 was between 7.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 15.9 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
  • January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
  • June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
  • July 28 » Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
  • September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
  • November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Gerald James Whitrow, English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912)
• 2000 » John Schlee, American golfer (b. 1939)
• 2000 » Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2002 » Hugo van Lawick, Dutch director and photographer (b. 1937)