Family tree Engel-Van Mierlo » Maria Anna Fouchier (1920-2001)

Day of death August 28, 2001

• The temperature on August 28, 2001 was between 7.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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, 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.
  • April 1 » An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
  • July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
  • July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
  • September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  • September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
  • November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

Day of burial September 1, 2001

• The temperature on September 1, 2001 was between 9.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded 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, 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.
  • February 11 » A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
  • March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
  • April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
  • April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
  • May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
  • June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 2005 » George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1963)
• 2006 » Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1922)
• 2006 » Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)