Family tree Scheffer » Harm Jan (Hermanus Johannes) Halfwerk (1913-1991)

Day of marriage June 9, 1942

• The temperature on June 9, 1942 was between 4.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
  • March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
  • May 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USSYorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
  • August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
  • November 26 » World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

Day of death February 28, 1991

• The temperature on February 28, 1991 was between 0.8 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 26 » Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
  • May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
  • July 7 » Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • September 17 » The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
  • September 22 » The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
  • October 1 » Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.

Day of burial March 4, 1991

• The temperature on March 4, 1991 was between -1.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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.
  • February 7 » Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
  • May 5 » A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
  • May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
  • June 17 » Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
  • September 8 » The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
  • September 11 » Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Stephen Tennant, English author (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Wassily Hoeffding, Finnish-American statistician and theorist (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress and dancer (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Dermot Morgan, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1952)