Family tree Van Eijk » Willy "Wil" Schmitz (1918-2002)

Day of marriage April 17, 1940

• The temperature on April 17, 1940 was between 0.9 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • May 24 » Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
  • June 3 » World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
  • June 14 » The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
  • July 2 » The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
  • August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
  • August 30 » The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

Day of death November 5, 2002

• The temperature on November 5, 2002 was between 3.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800km (500mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
  • March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
  • May 3 » An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
  • September 9 » The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India.
  • October 26 » Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
  • November 19 » The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
• 2000 » Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1899)
• 2001 » Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (b. 1943)
• 2001 » Roy Boulting, English director and producer (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2004 » Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)