Clarke Family Tree » Madeline May Cather (1914-1978)

Day of marriage September 12, 1942

• The temperature on September 12, 1942 was between 13.1 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • July 23 » World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
  • September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
  • October 3 » A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
  • November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
  • November 11 » World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

Day of death June 8, 1978

• The temperature on June 8, 1978 was between 12.2 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
  • July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
  • August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
  • November 27 » In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
  • December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
  • December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.

Day of burial June 10, 1978

• The temperature on June 10, 1978 was between 7.8 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
  • May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
  • July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
  • September 8 » Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700–3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
  • September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
  • November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.

Source: Wikipedia

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