Family tree Verburgt » Petronella Elisabeth Meesters (1917-2000)

Day of marriage September 25, 1940

• The temperature on September 25, 1940 was between 5.0 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 12 » Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
  • May 26 » World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
  • September 15 » World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
  • September 29 » Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
  • 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 » World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

Day of death April 11, 2000

• The temperature on April 11, 2000 was between -2.4 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (61%). 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
  • March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
  • October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
  • October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
  • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
  • December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (b. 1899)
• 1997 » Wang Xiaobo, contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (b. 1952)
• 1999 » William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Diana Darvey, English actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
• 2001 » Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (b. 1900)