Family tree Joon » Frederik Juriaan "Freek" Pieters (1928-2002)

Day of marriage August 27, 1953

• The temperature on August 27, 1953 was between 8.3 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
  • June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
  • July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
  • July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
  • August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
  • October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.

Day of death October 28, 2002

• The temperature on October 28, 2002 was between 6.0 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • February 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
  • April 4 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
  • April 14 » Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
  • May 3 » An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
  • July 28 » Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
  • November 6 » Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Day of cremation November 1, 2002

• The temperature on November 1, 2002 was between 1.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 23 » U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
  • February 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
  • July 2 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
  • October 26 » Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
  • October 29 » Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
  • November 28 » Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 » Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 » Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
• 2004 » Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)