Stamboom vd Schoot en v Gelder » Geertrui van der Plank (1938-2009)

Day of death August 26, 2009

• The temperature on August 26, 2009 was between 10.3 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • March 12 » Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
  • July 5 » A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
  • July 26 » The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
  • October 1 » The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
  • October 28 » NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
  • November 21 » A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
• 2009 » Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (b. 1925)
• 2010 » Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)
• 2011 » George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)
• 2011 » John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)
• 2011 » Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)