Family tree Kaper » Alberdina Christina Witting (1917-2000)

Day of marriage May 11, 1940

• The temperature on May 11, 1940 was between 5.5 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 16 » World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMSCossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
  • June 10 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
  • July 23 » The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
  • November 5 » World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMSJervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
  • November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

Day of death September 6, 2000

• The temperature on September 6, 2000 was between 13.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • May 17 » Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
  • May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
  • August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
  • October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (b. 1952)
• 1999 » Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
• 1999 » René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian Military (b. 1918)