Family tree Fay van Meurs » Adriaantje "Adrie" Butler (1922-2004)

Day of marriage September 23, 1943

• The temperature on September 23, 1943 was between 2.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 24 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
  • February 18 » World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
  • April 26 » The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
  • May 17 » World War II: Dambuster Raids commence by No. 617 Squadron RAF.
  • July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
  • August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.

Day of death May 24, 2004

• The temperature on May 24, 2004 was between 2.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (71%). 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 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 12 » The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
  • March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
  • June 28 » Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
  • August 17 » The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
  • November 26 » Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
  • December 31 » The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670ft).

Day of burial May 27, 2004

• The temperature on May 27, 2004 was between 1.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 22 » Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
  • September 15 » National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
  • September 16 » Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
  • October 4 » SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
  • November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
  • November 26 » The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900)
• 2004 » Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Carl Amery, German activist and author (b. 1922)