Family tree Joosten Geurts » Maria Mechelina "Mia" van Deursen (1917-2001)

Day of marriage July 28, 1942

• The temperature on July 28, 1942 was between 10.3 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • June 21 » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
  • June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • July 18 » The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
  • July 23 » World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
  • August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
  • September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.

Day of death 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.
  • January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
  • January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
  • April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
  • June 23 » The 8.4 M_w  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
  • September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
  • September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)