Family tree Van der Ploeg » Laurentius Lamert Petrus van der Ploeg (1912-1999)

Day of marriage May 9, 1940

• The temperature on May 9, 1940 was between 7.0 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 27 » Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
  • February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
  • May 28 » World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
  • November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
  • November 16 » New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
  • November 16 » World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

Day of death February 21, 1999

• The temperature on February 21, 1999 was between 3.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • July 10 » In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
  • 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.
  • August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
  • November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
  • 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 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1999 » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
• 2002 » John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)