Eijsermans family tree » Augusta Maria "Gusta" Keersmaekers (1912-2000)

Christening day April 24, 1912

• The temperature on April 24, 1912 was between 5.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death February 21, 2000

• The temperature on February 21, 2000 was between -3.7 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (39%). The 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.
  • January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
  • June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
  • August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
  • October 7 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
  • October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
  • November 26 » George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.

Day of burial February 26, 2000

• The temperature on February 26, 2000 was between -0.7 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly 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.
  • April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
  • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
• 2002 » John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)
• 2004 » John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)