The temperature on April 28, 1940 was between 8.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 7 » Winter War: Battle of Raate Road - The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
May 15 » USSSailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
October 16 » Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
Day of marriage October 7, 1961
The temperature on October 7, 1961 was between 8.9 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 15 » Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
Day of death August 6, 2013
The temperature on August 6, 2013 was between 13.9 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 1 » At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
April 23 » At least 28 people are killed and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
May 13 » American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
June 3 » The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
August 14 » UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
September 21 » Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Day of burial August 10, 2013
The temperature on August 10, 2013 was between 10.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 20 » A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
July 6 » At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
August 15 » The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
October 13 » A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
November 8 » Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
November 24 » Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: René Meijer, "Meijer Stamboom", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/meijer-stamboom/I1062950116.php : accessed February 2, 2026), "Johanna Aurelia "Ansje" Meijer (1940-2013)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.