Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Josephine Clementine Conk (1916-2008)

Day of marriage April 29, 1939

• The temperature on April 29, 1939 was between 3.9 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
  • May 17 » The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
  • June 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
  • July 4 » Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
  • September 2 » World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
  • December 24 » World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

Day of death August 25, 2008

• The temperature on August 25, 2008 was between 14.4 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • July 1 » Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
  • July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
  • September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  • September 20 » A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
  • September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
  • October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Benjamin Aaron, American lawyer and scholar (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
• 2008 » Ahmad Faraz, Pakistani poet (b. 1931)
• 2008 » Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
• 2009 » Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1940)
• 2009 » Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)