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Household of Everardus Adrianus Wortel
Notes about Everardus Adrianus Wortel
Everardus Antonius Wortel was opvarende van de Hare Majesteit van Nes, die tenonder ging in de Javazee. Hij kreeg een zeemansgraf (bron: www.ogs.nl [oorlogsgravenstichting]). = Vlootmonument op het Nederlands ereveld Kembang Kuning te Surabaya, waarop Everardus Adrianus Wortel staat vermeld. Op initiatief van de Oorlogsgravenstichting is op het Nederlands ereveld Kembang Kuning in Surabaya het Vlootmonument gebouwd. Hierop zijn zes bronzen platen aangebracht met de namen van 356 marinemannen die aan boord van 19 schepen zijn gesneuveld in de periode 8 december 1941 tot 9 maart 1942, van wie de laatste rustplaats niet aanwijsbaar is en de namen nog niet elders vermeld staan. Vice-admiraal J.W. Kelder, Commandant Zeestrijdkrachten, onthulde het monument op 19 januari 2007. Bij de gegevens van de individuele slachtoffers vindt u een foto van de gedenkplaat waarop de naam van het desbetreffende slachtoffer vermeld staat. (bron: www.ogs.nl [oorlogsgravenstichting])
The temperature on December 6, 1909 was between 2.2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
Day of death February 17, 1942
The temperature on February 17, 1942 was between -4.2 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
May 8 » World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
September 23 » World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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