Andorfer Family Tree » Janice Ruth ROSS (1939-2008)

Day of marriage October 26, 1957

• The temperature on October 26, 1957 was between 11.3 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
  • February 18 » Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
  • June 21 » Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
  • August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
  • September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
  • October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

Day of death May 31, 2008

• The temperature on May 31, 2008 was between 11.9 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 29 » The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak leads to his deployment being reported by foreign media.
  • May 25 » NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
  • May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
  • June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
  • July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
  • December 9 » The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2009 » Danny La Rue, Irish-British drag queen performer and singer (b. 1927)
• 2009 » George Tiller, American physician (b. 1941)
• 2010 » Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (b. 1933)
• 2010 » Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1911)