Clarke Family Tree » William Thomas Patterson (1876-1949)

Day of death June 6, 1949

• The temperature on June 6, 1949 was between 6.1 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
  • January 31 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
  • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
  • April 4 » Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
  • July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1900)
• 1946 » Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
• 1948 » Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1954 » Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer and author (b. 1910)