Family tree Klavers » Hendrik Platje (1913-2002)

Day of marriage April 10, 1937

• The temperature on April 10, 1937 was between 10.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
  • July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
  • December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
  • December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

Day of death January 17, 2002

• The temperature on January 17, 2002 was between 3.8 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • March 29 » In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
  • May 10 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4million in cash and diamonds.
  • May 24 » Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
  • July 2 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
  • November 18 » Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
  • December 13 » European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 2003 » Richard Crenna, American actor and director (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (b. 1929)