Family tree Klavers » William John Meems (1931-2001)

Day of marriage September 3, 1955

• The temperature on September 3, 1955 was between 7.3 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
  • July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
  • December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
  • December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
  • December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

Day of death January 2, 2001

• The temperature on January 2, 2001 was between 5.6 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
  • June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
  • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  • September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
  • October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
  • December 13 » Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 2000 » Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Patrick O'Brian, English author and translator (b. 1914)
• 2001 » William P. Rogers, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist and physician (b. 1911)