Family tree Van Leeuwen - Amsterdam » GERRITJE PIETERNELLA van LEEUWEN (1908-1994)

Day of marriage April 25, 1940

• The temperature on April 25, 1940 was between 9.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 16.9 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. The average windspeed was 3 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 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 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
  • May 15 » USSSailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
  • June 4 » World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
  • July 5 » World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
  • August 6 » Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
  • September 17 » World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.

Day of death September 21, 1994

• The temperature on September 21, 1994 was between 9.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • March 23 » A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
  • April 27 » South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
  • April 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
  • June 17 » Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
  • August 24 » Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
  • October 29 » Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.

Day of cremation September 27, 1994

• The temperature on September 27, 1994 was between 10.9 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
  • April 4 » Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
  • April 27 » South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
  • July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
  • July 25 » Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
  • August 14 » Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1954)
• 1990 » Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1991 » Gordon Bashford, English engineer (b. 1916)
• 1992 » Tarachand Barjatya, Indian film producer, founded Rajshri Productions (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (b. 1959)