Family tree Van de Veerdonk » Cornelia Adriana Maria "Cor" van de Veerdonk (1914-1993)

Day of marriage November 27, 1945

• The temperature on November 27, 1945 was between 0.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (34%). 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • March 21 » World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
  • March 29 » World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
  • March 31 » World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
  • April 11 » World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
  • April 12 » World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reached Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
  • June 18 » William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.

Day of death February 21, 1993

• The temperature on February 21, 1993 was between 1.0 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
  • March 7 » The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA.
  • May 18 » Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
  • June 12 » An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
  • October 4 » Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
  • November 20 » Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

Day of burial February 24, 1993

• The temperature on February 24, 1993 was between -3.2 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
  • January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
  • March 20 » The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
  • August 7 » Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • August 10 » Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 M_w  shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 M_w  event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island.
  • October 30 » The Troubles: Loyalists carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland, killing six Catholics and two Protestants.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)