Family tree Gelderman » Margaretha Melia Moesbergen (1920-2003)

Day of marriage August 21, 1947

• The temperature on August 21, 1947 was between 14.4 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.

Day of death June 12, 2003

• The temperature on June 12, 2003 was between 9.4 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
  • March 12 » The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
  • July 22 » Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
  • August 14 » Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students.
  • September 21 » The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
  • November 22 » England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
• 2002 » Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922)
• 2002 » Zena Sutherland, American reviewer of children's literature (b. 1915)
• 2003 » Gregory Peck, American actor and political activist (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918)