Family tree Van Britsom en Bax » Elisabeth Johanna Meesters (1921-2001)

Day of marriage July 20, 1942

• The temperature on July 20, 1942 was between 13.6 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 1 » World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
  • February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
  • April 8 » World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
  • April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
  • May 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USSYorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
  • June 21 » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.

Day of death January 11, 2001

• The temperature on January 11, 2001 was between -1.8 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
  • May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
  • May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
  • July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
  • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  • September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1999 » Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author and poet (b. 1897)
• 2000 » Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, co-designed the Royal National Theatre (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian director and playwright (b. 1920)