Family tree Den Elzen - Bollenstreek » Maria "Rie" Bierman (1916-2013)

Day of marriage April 16, 1940

• The temperature on April 16, 1940 was between 1.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 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.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
  • May 15 » Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
  • June 25 » World War II: The French armistice with Germany comes into effect.
  • August 18 » World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain. At that point, the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
  • November 11 » World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
  • November 12 » World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.

Day of death May 13, 2013

• The temperature on May 13, 2013 was between 7.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 22 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
  • April 30 » Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
  • May 25 » A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
  • June 27 » NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
  • October 28 » Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China.
  • November 17 » A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.

Day of burial May 17, 2013

• The temperature on May 17, 2013 was between 8.1 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
  • May 23 » A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
  • May 30 » Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
  • June 16 » A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
  • June 26 » Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
  • June 30 » Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2013 » Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (b. 1973)
• 2013 » Jagdish Mali, Indian photographer (b. 1954)
• 2013 » Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Lynne Woolstencroft, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
• 2013 » Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (b. 1937)