Family tree Klein » Pieter Weistra (1920-1998)

Day of marriage February 19, 1943

• The temperature on February 19, 1943 was between -1.3 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
  • April 8 » Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
  • May 14 » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSCentaur off the coast of Queensland.
  • August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
  • August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
  • December 8 » World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.

Day of death February 15, 1998

• The temperature on February 15, 1998 was between 6.6 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • June 11 » Compaq Computer pays US$9billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
  • August 7 » Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
  • August 8 » Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
  • October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
  • October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
  • December 19 » President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

Day of burial February 20, 1998

• The temperature on February 20, 1998 was between 8.5 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • March 27 » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
  • April 5 » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
  • August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.
  • September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
  • October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
  • December 26 » Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2000 » Angus MacLean, Canadian commander and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor (b. 1914)