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.
  • April 24 » World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
  • June 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
  • September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
  • September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
  • October 12 » World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
  • 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 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
  • April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
  • July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
  • September 7 » The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
  • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
  • December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

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.
  • February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
  • February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
  • March 23 » Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
  • April 23 » NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
  • October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

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)