Family tree Van Engel(s)dorp Gastelaars » Pieternella "Pietje Steke" van Rooijen (1929-1999)

Day of marriage September 15, 1950

• The temperature on September 15, 1950 was between 11.9 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 20.2 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
  • February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
  • May 5 » Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand.
  • October 19 » Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
  • November 21 » Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
  • December 9 » Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Day of death November 8, 1999

• The temperature on November 8, 1999 was between 6.0 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
  • April 20 » Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
  • May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
  • May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
  • November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
  • December 20 » Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.

Day of burial November 12, 1999

• The average temperature on November 12, 1999 was 3.4 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
  • May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
  • May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
  • June 10 » Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
  • December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Jean Marais, French actor and director (b. 1913)
• 1998 » John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Rumer Godden, English author and poet (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast and judge (b. 1898)
• 1999 » Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941)
• 2001 » Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player and educator (b. 1930)