Genealogy Van der Werf/roodhuis » Johannes Titus de Wolff (1907-1990)

Day of marriage April 28, 1937

• The temperature on April 28, 1937 was between 3.1 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

Day of death July 29, 1990

• The temperature on July 29, 1990 was between 13.3 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • March 29 » The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
  • April 12 » Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
  • May 4 » Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
  • June 19 » The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
  • November 2 » British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
  • November 5 » Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1990 » Bruno Kreisky, Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1952)
• 1994 » Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1994 » John Britton, American physician (b. 1925)
• 1995 » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1917)