Barber Family Tree » James Isham Swain (1925-1974)

Day of marriage April 16, 1951

• The temperature on April 16, 1951 was between 3.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
  • February 6 » The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
  • March 31 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
  • April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
  • May 13 » The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
  • November 15 » Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.

Day of death October 9, 1974

• The temperature on October 9, 1974 was between 2.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 22 » The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
  • March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
  • September 12 » Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
  • September 15 » Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
  • October 5 » Bombs planted by the PIRA kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
  • November 24 » Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1972 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)