Genealogy Witte » Johanna Maria Margaretha van der Wardt (1920-1991)

Day of death September 5, 1991

• The temperature on September 5, 1991 was between 11.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
  • March 26 » Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
  • April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
  • April 29 » The 7.0 M_w  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
  • September 5 » The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
  • September 17 » The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

Day of burial September 10, 1991

• The temperature on September 10, 1991 was between 6.4 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 2 » Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.
  • February 20 » In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
  • February 24 » Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
  • June 10 » Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
  • October 1 » Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
  • November 14 » Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (b. 1931)
• 1992 » Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (b. 1910)