Family tree Theodorus Geentkens » Augustinus "Gust" Geentjens (1921-2001)

Day of marriage May 23, 1942

• The temperature on May 23, 1942 was between 9.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 18 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
  • March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
  • August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
  • November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
  • December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
  • December 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

Day of death December 20, 2001

• The temperature on December 20, 2001 was between -2.1 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
  • June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
  • September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
  • October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
  • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
  • October 22 » Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.

Day of cremation December 26, 2001

• The temperature on December 26, 2001 was between 0.3 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
  • May 21 » French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
  • June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
  • September 3 » In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, some of whom hurl missiles and abuse. The protest sparks fierce rioting and grabs world headlines.
  • September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
  • November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)