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.
  • February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
  • April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
  • July 20 » California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
  • November 5 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
  • November 16 » New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
  • November 27 » In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.

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.
  • January 11 » The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
  • February 5 » Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
  • February 22 » Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
  • March 21 » The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
  • April 7 » Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
  • June 30 » During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board.

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.
  • April 6 » The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
  • June 20 » The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
  • June 23 » NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
  • October 21 » North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
  • October 27 » Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
  • December 10 » Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.

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)