Genealogy Pot en Smit » JANNIGJE JOHANNA VERSTOEP (1920-1999)

Day of marriage October 2, 1947

• The temperature on October 2, 1947 was between 6.3 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
  • July 4 » The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.

Day of death July 18, 1999

• The temperature on July 18, 1999 was between 12.1 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 21.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • November 27 » The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
  • December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

Day of burial July 23, 1999

• The temperature on July 23, 1999 was between 12.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded 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, 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.
  • May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
  • July 9 » Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
  • July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
  • September 14 » Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
  • November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
  • December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 2002 » Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)
• 2004 » André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976)
• 2005 » William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)