Family tree Jacobs » Willem Huizing (1918-2008)

Day of marriage December 16, 1944

• The temperature on December 16, 1944 was between -0.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
  • April 14 » Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20million pounds.
  • April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
  • June 11 » USSMissouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
  • September 15 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
  • September 17 » World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

Day of death January 25, 2008

• The temperature on January 25, 2008 was between 2.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
  • March 23 » Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
  • May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
  • August 13 » Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
  • September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
  • December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Day of cremation January 30, 2008

• The temperature on January 30, 2008 was between 0.6 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • April 8 » The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
  • May 25 » NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
  • June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
  • August 16 » The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
  • October 15 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
  • October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2005 » William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
• 2009 » Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932)
• 2009 » Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
• 2009 » Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2010 » Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)