Eijsermans family tree » Johannes Martinus "Jan" Heesters (1928-1999)

Day of marriage January 16, 1957

• The temperature on January 16, 1957 was between -2.3 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
  • January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
  • January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
  • August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
  • October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

Day of death August 12, 1999

• The temperature on August 12, 1999 was between 8.5 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
  • May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
  • June 10 » Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
  • July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
  • August 26 » Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • September 14 » Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

Day of burial August 15, 1999

• The temperature on August 15, 1999 was between 12.1 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
  • April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
  • August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
  • September 7 » The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
  • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
  • November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Mark Gruenwald, American author and illustrator (b. 1953)
• 1996 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (b. 1955)
• 2000 » Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)