Genealogisch Web Rijken » Gerardus "Grard" Kluijtmans (1922-2000)

Day of marriage May 28, 1946

• The temperature on May 28, 1946 was between 9.5 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • January 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
  • April 8 » Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
  • July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
  • July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
  • July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
  • October 22 » Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post–World War II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.

Day of death January 21, 2000

• The temperature on January 21, 2000 was between 2.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • 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.
  • September 10 » Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • November 17 » Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

Day of burial January 26, 2000

• The temperature on January 26, 2000 was between -1.1 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (51%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
  • February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
  • June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  • August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
  • November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Jack Lord, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 2002 » Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Paul Haines, American-Canadian poet and songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (b. 1929)