FutureHistory » Jan Augustinus Albertus van Ranst (1915-1999)

Day of marriage March 3, 1944

• The temperature on March 3, 1944 was between -0.2 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
  • August 23 » World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
  • September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
  • September 18 » World War II:Battle of Arracourt begins
  • November 16 » World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.

Day of death February 13, 1999

• The temperature on February 13, 1999 was between -9.6 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
  • April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
  • May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
  • August 26 » Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • October 12 » The World Population reaches 6 billion.
  • December 26 » The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.

Day of burial February 20, 1999

• The temperature on February 20, 1999 was between 3.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 23 » Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
  • April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
  • October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
  • October 26 » Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
  • December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
  • December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1997 » Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1914)
• 2000 » James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (b. 1921)
• 2000 » John Leake, English soldier (b. 1949)