Geensen database » Frans Cornelis Geense (1910-1991)

Day of death February 21, 1991

• The temperature on February 21, 1991 was between 0.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • February 15 » The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
  • October 4 » The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
  • November 14 » American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
  • November 26 » National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
  • December 1 » Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
  • December 4 » Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.

Day of burial February 27, 1991

• The temperature on February 27, 1991 was between 0.5 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
  • January 29 » Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
  • February 16 » Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
  • July 10 » Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
  • October 11 » Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
  • October 29 » The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)