Andorfer Family Tree » Leona Estelle CRAM (1921-2012)

Day of marriage January 1, 1940

• The temperature on January 1, 1940 was between -8 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
  • May 15 » Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
  • August 19 » First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
  • August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
  • November 18 » World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.
  • November 27 » In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.

Day of death August 28, 2012

• The temperature on August 28, 2012 was between 11.6 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • March 4 » A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
  • June 3 » The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
  • July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
  • September 7 » Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
  • October 1 » A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
  • November 18 » Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2011 » Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (b. 1967)
• 2012 » Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2012 » Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (b. 1945)