Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » Jack Craft (1909-1986)

Day of marriage July 22, 1937

• The temperature on July 22, 1937 was between 13.2 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
  • July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

Day of death October 6, 1986

• The temperature on October 6, 1986 was between 10.8 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
  • June 4 » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
  • July 6 » Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
  • October 3 » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
  • November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
  • November 29 » The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1983 » Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)