Family tree Weening » Gouke Harkema (1918-1991)

Day of marriage March 7, 1947

• The temperature on March 7, 1947 was between -8.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -3.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
  • July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
  • November 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.

Day of death June 6, 1991

• The temperature on June 6, 1991 was between 8.7 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 15 » The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
  • January 17 » Crown prince Harald V of Norway becomes King Harald V, following the death of his father, King Olav V.
  • March 2 » Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
  • August 19 » Crown Heights riot begins.
  • September 19 » Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
  • December 20 » A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1984 » A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian soldier and author (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Barry Sullivan, American film actor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his studies of histocompatibility (b. 1903)