Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Petrus Johannes Ligtermoet (1918-2001)

Day of death April 17, 2001

• The temperature on April 17, 2001 was between 2.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
  • May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
  • June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
  • September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
  • October 19 » SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
  • 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.

Day of burial April 21, 2001

• The temperature on April 21, 2001 was between 0.1 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 31 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
  • March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
  • September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
  • December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

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