Family tree Meiling » Riekje Gerards (1914-1999)

Christening day September 27, 1914

• The temperature on September 27, 1914 was between 9.0 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
  • November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Day of marriage May 17, 1939

• The temperature on May 17, 1939 was between 7.1 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Spanish Civil War: Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
  • July 4 » Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
  • September 10 » World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
  • September 21 » Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
  • December 14 » Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
  • December 24 » World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

Day of death November 21, 1999

• The temperature on November 21, 1999 was between -1.1 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
  • March 28 » Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
  • March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • August 26 » Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • November 27 » The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.

Day of burial November 25, 1999

• The temperature on November 25, 1999 was between 7.7 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. The almost completely overcast 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
  • April 14 » NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
  • April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
  • May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
  • July 10 » In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
  • October 22 » Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Peter Grant, English actor and manager (b. 1935)
• 1996 » Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Bernard Rose, English organist and composer (b 1916)
• 1999 » Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Ernest Lluch, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1937)
• 2002 » Hadda Brooks, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)