Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Jan van Voorst (1913-2000)

Day of marriage November 27, 1936

• The temperature on November 27, 1936 was between -1.2 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
  • July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
  • August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.

Day of death July 27, 2000

• The temperature on July 27, 2000 was between 10.1 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • July 25 » Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
  • 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 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
  • October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
  • November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
  • December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.

Day of burial July 31, 2000

• The temperature on July 31, 2000 was between 11.6 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
  • August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
  • August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
  • October 26 » The Sony PlayStation 2 is launched in North American markets with 27 launch titles.
  • December 30 » Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Binnie Barnes, English-American actress (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Harry Edison, American trumpet player (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
• 2001 » Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1952)
• 2001 » Rhonda Sing, Canadian wrestler (b. 1961)