Conk/Robillard Family Tree » John Grandin McGovern (1914-1992)

Day of marriage May 5, 1973

• The temperature on May 5, 1973 was between 8.5 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 22 » In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
  • April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
  • April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
  • July 29 » Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
  • August 2 » A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
  • August 15 » Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.

Day of death August 26, 1992

• The temperature on August 26, 1992 was between 15.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (31%). 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • April 2 » Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • April 27 » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
  • July 22 » Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
  • July 23 » A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
  • September 11 » Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
  • December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1992 » Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
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