Eijsermans family tree » Johannes "Jan" Vosters (1909-2001)

Day of marriage April 11, 1935

• The temperature on April 11, 1935 was between 7.1 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • February 2 » Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
  • February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • May 31 » A 7.7 M_w  earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
  • June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
  • December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.

Day of death May 19, 2001

• The temperature on May 19, 2001 was between 6.5 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • September 14 » Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
  • October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
  • November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Day of burial May 22, 2001

• The temperature on May 22, 2001 was between 6.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (93%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
  • 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 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
  • November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.
  • 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

• 1998 » Sōsuke Uno, Japanese soldier and politician, 75th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 » John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
• 2002 » Walter Lord, American historian and author (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress and screenwriter (b. 1907)