Family tree Van Koert » Pieter de Waardt (1905-2002)

Day of marriage January 5, 1928

• The temperature on January 5, 1928 was between 2.7 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.

Day of death April 18, 2002

• The temperature on April 18, 2002 was between 2.3 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • February 12 » The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
  • March 2 » U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
  • May 6 » Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
  • May 25 » China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
  • October 11 » A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.
  • November 15 » Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)