Conrad-Cook Family Tree » Dorothy Margaret Ashley (1917-2007)

Day of marriage January 29, 1943

• The temperature on January 29, 1943 was between 6.3 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
  • August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
  • September 6 » Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
  • September 6 » The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
  • September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.
  • September 23 » World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.

Day of death June 4, 2007

• The temperature on June 4, 2007 was between 12.6 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
  • June 18 » The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
  • July 31 » Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
  • August 1 » The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
  • September 14 » Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
  • October 15 » Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Steve Lacy, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Bill France, Jr., American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1937)
• 2007 » Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 » John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)