Family tree Van 't Hoff - Zondag - Bosch - de Zwaan - vd Kolk - Westhuis - Plomp » Gerrit Willem Bosch (1920-2005)

Day of marriage April 15, 1942

• The temperature on April 15, 1942 was between 1.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 8 » World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
  • February 18 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
  • February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
  • April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
  • July 18 » World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
  • September 9 » World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.

Day of death August 14, 2005

• The temperature on August 14, 2005 was between 13.5 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 12.6 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 21 » In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
  • February 2 » The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
  • August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
  • August 16 » West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
  • September 24 » Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
  • October 15 » A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.

Day of cremation August 19, 2005

• The temperature on August 19, 2005 was between 15.3 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
  • July 23 » Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
  • July 26 » Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
  • September 16 » The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
  • December 4 » Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2004 » Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2007 » Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)