Family tree familie Eilders » Eugene Glenn Beenken (1912-2005)

Day of marriage April 24, 1942

• The temperature on April 24, 1942 was between 3.3 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
  • January 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
  • April 8 » World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
  • May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
  • June 7 » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
  • August 26 » At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.

Day of death December 2, 2005

• The temperature on December 2, 2005 was between 0.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 29 » The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
  • March 3 » Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
  • August 3 » President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
  • September 24 » Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
  • October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
  • November 30 » John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Alan Davidson, British soldier, historian, and author (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian convicted drug trafficker (b. 1980)
• 2005 » William P. Lawrence, American admiral and pilot (b. 1930)
• 2006 » Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)