Family tree Klavers » Albertus Hermanus Antonius "Bertus" Blaauwgeers (1924-2000)

Day of marriage September 3, 1949

• The temperature on September 3, 1949 was between 12.5 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
  • June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
  • July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
  • September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
  • November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.

Day of death January 17, 2000

• The temperature on January 17, 2000 was between 4.8 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
  • 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 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
  • October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
  • December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Philip Jones, English trumpet player and educator (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Roman Personov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1932)