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 11 » A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
  • April 1 » An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
  • September 10 » Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
  • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

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 26 » The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
  • September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  • October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
  • December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  • December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Source: Wikipedia

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